Education:
B.S., Psychology: University of Maryland
M.D., Medicine: University of Maryland
26 credits towards M.S. in Epidemiology: Johns Hopkins University
Internship, Internal Medicine: Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
Residency, Psychiatry: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Registrar to Professor Michael Rutter: Children’s Dept, Maudsley Hospital, London, England
Fellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowship, Psychiatric Genetics: John Merck Scholars Program in Developmental Disabilities, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Summary Statement:
Dr. Joseph Piven’s research focus is on the pathogenesis of autism including neural mechanisms, genetic basis and neuropsychological and behavioral phenotype.

Representative Publications:
1. Collaborative Linkage Study of Autism Group: Bradford Y, Haines J, Hutcheson H, Gardiner M, Braun T, Sheffield V, Cassavant T, Huang W, Wang K, Vieland V, Folstein S, Santangelo S, Piven J: Incorporating Language Phenotypes Strengthens Evidence of Linkage to Autism. American Journal of Medical Genetics- Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 105:539-547, 2001.

2. Piven J: The Broad Autism Phenotype: A Complementary Strategy for Molecular Genetic Studies of Autism. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 105: 34-36, 2001.

3. Sears L, Vest C, Mohamed S, Bailey J, Ranson B, Piven J: An MRI Study of the Basal Ganglia in Autism, Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology in Biological Psychiatry, 23: 613-624, 1999.