Lauren Kenworthy, PhD, is Tenured Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine, and Chief of Neuropsychology and Director of the Center for Autism at Children’s National. Dr. Kenworthy received her BA from Yale University and PhD from the University of Maryland. She did internship and residency training in clinical psychology/pediatric neuropsychology at Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, Johns Hopkins Medical School and Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. She has been on the faculty at Children’s National Medical Center and George Washington University School of Medicine since 1995. Dr. Kenworthy's research interests are in describing and treating the neuropsychological phenotype of autism.  She is an author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and a co-author of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), which has been used in over 2,500 research publications to document executive functioning in various clinical groups. Her recent publications have focused on the role of executive dysfunction in autism and its treatment and co-production with autistic colleagues.  She is author of a school based executive function intervention for children on the autism spectrum, Unstuck and On Target.  She has a long history of federally funded research on autism and executive function emphasizing community-based research. A national and international speaker on autism spectrum disorders and executive functions, she is the author of four books and multiple chapters on these topics.