Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

CORES

Clinical Translation

Overview

The mission of the Translational Clinical Core of the UCLA IDDRC is to support high quality, multidisciplinary, collaborative clinical translational research advancing knowledge of causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs).  The Core has successfully established effective procedures for support of ongoing and new clinical IDD studies and has contributed new phenotyping measurements to the field. 
 
The Core is committed to advancing assessment methodology for use in IDD clinical research through innovative measure development, evaluation, and dissemination. 

Our Team

Suma Jacob, MD, PhD

Core Director

Amanda Gulsrud, PhD

Associate Core Director

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Rujuta Bhatt-Wilson, MD

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Catherine Lord, PhD