Upcoming Webinar

Topics will include: 

• How the Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center (The ABC) has developed inclusive and adaptive research opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Evidence supporting the benefit in physical and mental health and quality of life through community participation for adults with autism and other intellectual and/or developmental disabilities
• Existing research studies and quality improvement data projects at The ABC, explaining each one with examples of self-advocate involvement.
• Cognitively appropriate assent processes and how to include more people at the table of research design and conduct.

Micah Pepper is the Business Operations Manager at the Seattle Children’s Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center. Previously, she worked at the University of Washington’s Bernier Lab as the Program Operations Manager overseeing an Autism research program.  Micah’s background is in global public health, and she has additional experience in disability research in Punta Arenas, Chile.

Gary Stobbe is a Board Certified Neurologist sub-specializing in cognitive behavioral neurology. Dr. Stobbe is Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine with a dual appointment in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Stobbe serves as Director of Adult Services at Seattle Children’s Autism Center, as Medical Director of the UW Medicine Adult Autism Clinic, and as Director of the Adults and Elders Program at the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UW.