Additional Titles & Roles
- Attending, School Consultation Clinic at Washington University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic
- Attending, Autism Clinical Center, Washington University
- Associate Professor of Radiology
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2012
- Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2010
- M.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 2007
- Ph.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 2007
- B.A.: University of Southern California, 1999
- B.S.: University of Southern California, 1999
Major Awards
- Travel Award, International Meeting for Autism Research, 2016
- Missouri Families for Effective Treatment of Autism, Executive Board, 2015
- Diversity Award, International Meeting for Autism Research, 2014
- Eli Robins Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry, in Teaching, and in Research, 2012
- Chief Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, 2012
Areas of Clinical Interest
Child and adolescent psychiatry, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, developmental disability, early childhood development, school consultation
Research Interests
Autism, development of language and social cognition, social motivation, emotion regulation in early childhood, biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders, neuroimaging
Recent Publications
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Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volumes from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with poorer executive function at school-age in children with and without autism
Zhang, Y., Rutsohn, J., Kim, S. H., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., Zwaigenbaum, L., Burrows, C., Dager, S. R., John, T. S., Estes, A. M., McKinstry, R. C., Marrus, N., Pruett, J. R., Styner, M., Hazlett, H. C., Piven, J., Shen, M. D. & Garic, D., Dec 2026, In: Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders. 18, 1, 9.
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Time trends in the male to female ratio for autism incidence: population based, prospectively collected, birth cohort study
Fyfe, C., Winell, H., Dougherty, J., Gutmann, D. H., Kolevzon, A., Marrus, N., Tedroff, K., Turner, T. N., Weiss, L. A., Yip, B. H. K., Yin, W. & Sandin, S., Feb 4 2026, In: BMJ. 392, e084164.
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Lunar rhythms in sleep patterns of children with a family history of autism
Rodríguez Ferrante, G., Munson, J., St. John, T., Pandey, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Dager, S. R., Marrus, N., Hazlett, H. C., Piven, J., De la Iglesia, H. O. & Estes, A., Feb 1 2026, In: Sleep. 49, 2, zsaf340.
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Phenotype Representation and Analysis via Discriminative Atypicality (PRADA) to Capture the Structural Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Onemli, E., Mahmood, A., Azrak, O., Garic, D., Swanson, M. R., Grzadzinski, R., Mata, K., Shen, M. D., Girault, J. B., St. John, T., Pandey, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Estes, A. M., Shen, A. M., Dager, S. R., Schultz, R. T., Botteron, K. N., Evans, A. C., Elison, J. T. & Yacoub, E. & 8 others, , 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 – 28th International Conference, 2025, Proceedings. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 473-483 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15961 LNCS).
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Mapping brain function underlying motor observation and naturalistic imitation using high-density diffuse optical tomography
Yang, D., George, T. G., Sobolewski, C. M., Mcmorrow, S. R., Pacheco, C., King, K. T., Rochowiak, R., Daniels-Day, E., Park, S., Speh, E., Lidstone, D., Santra, R., Crocetti, D., Sperry, A. D., Nebel, M. B., Tuncgenc, B., Vidal, R., Marrus, N. M., Mostofsky, S. H. & Eggebrecht, A. T., Dec 18 2025, Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging X. Contini, D., Hoshi, Y. & O’Sullivan, T. D. (eds.). SPIE, 139350H. (Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging – Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 13935).