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Down Syndrome Research and Practice - Editors

Down Syndrome Research and Practice has an international Editorial Board including experts across many research areas and areas of practice.


Editor in Chief

Sue Buckley OBE, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Disability, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK, and Chief Scientist and Director of Science and Research, Down Syndrome Education International, UK.

Deputy Editor in Chief (Development and Education)

Deborah Fidler, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Deputy Editor in Chief (Genetics and Biology)

David Patterson, Senior Scientist, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Colorado, USA.

Senior Editors

Senior Editor (Adult Issues)

Roy Brown, Emeritus Professor, Down Syndrome Research Foundation, Vancouver, Canada.

Senior Editor (Biochemistry)

Mara Dierssen, Group Leader, Genes and Disease Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.

Senior Editor (Clinical Issues)

Philip Mattheis, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician and Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA.

Senior Editor (Early Intervention)

Gerald Mahoney, Director, Center on Intervention for Children and Families and Verna Houck Motto Professor of Families and Communities, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Senior Editor (Education)

Kathleen Feeley, Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Special Education and Literacy, CW Post Campus of Long Island University, New York, USA.

Senior Editor (Family Issues)

Penny Hauser-Cram, Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USA.

Senior Editor (Molecular Genetics)

Stylianos Antonarakis, Professor, Director, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Geneva Medical School and University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland.

Senior Editor (Motor Development)

Dale Ulrich, Professor, Movement Science and Physical Education, The Division of Kinesiology and Director of the Center for Motor Behavior and Pediatric Disabilities, University of Michigan, USA.

Senior Editor (Psychology)

John Clibbens, Dean of Health, University of Essex, UK.

Senior Editor (Speech and Language)

Jean Rondal, Professor of Psycholinguistics, Department of Psychology, University of Liege, Belgium.

Executive Editors

Executive Editor (USA)

Joan Medlen, Dietician, Principal, Nutrition Counseling and Editor, Disability Solutions, Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA.

Editorial Board

  • Jesús Flórez Beledo, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cantabria School of Medicine, Santander, Spain.
  • Erik de Graaf, Past President, Stichting Down Syndroom, The Netherlands.
  • Marita Hopmann, Clinical Assistant Professor of Paediatrics, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, USA.
  • Libby Kumin, Professor of Speech-language Pathology, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore MD, USA.
  • Len Leshin, Paediatrician, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
  • Liz Marder, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Nottingham, and Chair of the UK Down's Syndrome Medical Interest Group (DSMIG).
  • Cynthia May, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Charleston, USA.
  • Jon Miller, Professor of Communicative Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.
  • David Most, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
  • Lynn Nadel, Regents Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA.
  • Jo Nye, Research Psychologist, formerly at Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
  • John Oates, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  • Bonnie Patterson, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA.
  • Juan Perera, Director of Centro Principe de Asturias, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
  • Siegfried Pueschel, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Child Development Center, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, USA.
  • Alberto Rasore-Quartino, Director, Unit of Neonatology. Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
  • Jonathan Rix, Lecturer in Inclusion, Curriculum and Learning, Centre for Curriculum and Teaching Studies, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  • Ben Sacks, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, Down Syndrome Education International, UK.

  • Agustin Seres-Santamaria, Medical Coordinator of the Centre Medic Down, Fundacio Catalana S. de Down, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Rebecca Stores, Senior Lecturer, Portsmouth Institute of Medicine, Health and Social Care, University of Portsmouth, UK.
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  • Margaret Woodhouse, Senior Lecturer, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.