• Mission • Advisory Board • Brochure • Application • History • Awards

AHA's Advisory Board members were drawn from past AHA speakers and professionals in the autism community.

We consider ourselves fortunate that, since our beginnings in 1988, our group has had such outstanding speakers and made so many lasting friendships.

Occasionally advisory members will submit articles for our newsletter and, as they do now, answer questions from us. We are delighted to be able to draw on the expertise and experience of such knowledgeable and terrific people.

Advisory Board Members

John C. Pomeroy, M.D., Chair

   Director, Cody Center for Autism and Developmental

   Disorders at Stony Brook University

May-Lynn Andresen, R.N.

  Director, Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism at AHRC, affiliated

   with NS-LIJ Health Systems

Tony Attwood, Ph.D.
Diane Adreon, M.S.

  Co-Director Miami Center for Autism
Michael J. Carley, M.F.A.

  Director of GRASP
Michelle Dunn, Ph.D.
V. Mark Durand, Ph. D.

Valerie Gaus, Ph.D.

Lynda Geller, Ph.D.
Peter F. Gerhardt, Ed.D.

  President of OAR, Organization for Autism Research

Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

C. Faith Kappenberg, Ph.D.,LCSW
Ami Klin, Ph.D.

   Yale Child Study Center
Brenda Smith Myles, Ph.D.
Jerry Newport, B.A.
Martin Schwartzman, C.F.E., C.I.E., C.P.C.U.
Stephen Shore, Ed.D.

AHA Board of Directors

President - Pat Schissel, LMSW
Vice President - Michael A. Buffa, Esq.
Corresponding Secretary - Kenia Nunez
Recording Secretary - Susan Deedy, Esq.
Treasurer - Lynn R. Levine
Newsletter Editor, Adult Issues - Bernice Polinsky
Information Technology- Carole Kalvar

Membership - Rosalie Edelson
Board Member- Bea Gravino
Board Member - Bill Braun
Board Member - Edward J. Nitkewicz Esq.
Special Events - William Heslin

Education Liaison -  Patricia Fitzgerald, M.S., CCC-SLP, TSHH

Professional Advisor - John Pomeroy, M.D.
Past President - Pat Long