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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Subclinical neuropsychiatric trait variation in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: a cohort study
Mullin, L. J., Xia, K., Wang, J., Lee, C. M., Buscher, T. G., Lasch, C., Burrows, C. A., Elison, J. T., Shen, M. D., Dager, S. R., Estes, A. M., Hazlett, H. C., Marrus, N., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., St. John, T., Zwaigenbaum, L., Constantino, J. N., Piven, J. & Girault, J. B., Dec 2026, In: Molecular Autism. 17, 1, 24.
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Longitudinal profiles of executive function in autistic and non-autistic children at high likelihood of autism
IBIS Network, Dec 2026, In: Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders. 18, 1, 21.
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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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Capturing attitudes towards research and data sharing in down syndrome (CARDS-DS): Piloting a novel parent-report measure
Menon, A. A., Cohn, B., Dager, S. R., Estes, A. M., St John, T., Hazlett, H. C., Marrus, N. & MacDuffie, K. E., Jun 2026, In: Social Sciences and Humanities Open. 13, 102673.
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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.