Dr. Susan L. Santangelo is a psychiatric and genetic epidemiologist and is Research Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the MaineHealth Institute for Research in Scarborough, Maine. She received her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and previously held faculty positions with Tufts New England Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she directed the Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory within the Center for Human Genetic Research.
Dr. Santangelo is a member of the Autism Working Group and the Cross-Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). She has studied the genetics of autism spectrum disorders for over 20 years and has partnered with Dr. Matthew Siegel to organize a national research collaborative of specialized inpatient units serving the most severely affected children with autism in order to establish the Autism Inpatient Collection (AIC). The AIC was funded to collect behavioral data and biological samples from ~1600 patients and their family members. Sequencing has recently been completed on all the AIC samples via SFARI and Regeneron and the data are scheduled to be released in June, 2025.
