Research in Autism Risk and Prevention- David Traver (May 2016)

Research in Autism Risk and Prevention, a presentation by David Traver, MD on May 19, 2016 at the Silicon Valley Health Institute.

Dr. Traver earned his undergraduate degree in Biology with high honors from Boston University. After receiving his Doctor of Medicine, he completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital, now known as Boston Medical Center.

Following this, Dr. Traver served as a physician for various international relief efforts throughout Asia, including The Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia. It was in Phnom Penh where he and his wife helped start the internationally acclaimed national teaching hospital The Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope.

After returning to the states, Dr. Traver worked at a large managed care medical group, where he served as Volunteer Clinical Faculty for Stanford University’s School of Medicine. It was during this time that he became aware of friends’ children who had been diagnosed with autism, and he soon became deeply interested in this set of conditions. Subsequently, Dr. Traver spent two years at Stanford University Medical Center’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. There, in The Pervasive Developmental Disorder Neuropsychiatry and ADHD Clinics, he became familiar with the treatment and management of individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and ADHD utilizing psychopharmacology as well as performing individualized assessments as part of the clinic team.


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