Randi J. Hagerman is an American physician and the medical director of MIND Institute at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

. She works for the pediatrics department under the division of child development and behavior. She is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of genetics of

autism spectrum disorder Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing di ...

with special focus on genomic instability. Along with her husban
Paul Hagerman
she discovered the Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS), a neurological disorder that affects older male and rare female carriers of fragile X. She was recognized on a list of the world's top female scientists

Work

Hagerman has written over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on neurodevelopmental disorders. Some of the specific topics of her papers include repeat expansion and the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. Fragile-X). She also works on an editorial board to help edit the publications '' Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics'' and '' Molecular Autism.''

Awards

*Jerrett Cole Award, National Fragile X Foundation, 1992 * Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Award for Science including Medicine, 1993 *Namesake (with Paul Hagerman), Hagerman Award for Research in FXTAS, International Association for the Study of Intellectual Deficiency, 2004 *Lifetime Achievement Award, National Fragile X Foundation, 2008

Education

* M.D., Medicine, F.A.A.P.,

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, Palo Alto, California, 1975 * B.S., Zoology,

UC Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

, Davis, California, 1971 * Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, 1976–77 *

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, La Jolla, California, 1979–80

References

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