Executive Members
Colleen Adnams – President, Vice President Africa/Eastern Mediterranean
South Africa
Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Disability
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town.
Angus Buchanan – President-Elect
Australia
Professor/Head of School at the School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology,
Curtin University, Australia
GPO Box U1987, Perth. Western Australia, 6845
Philip W. Davidson – Past President
United States of America
Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics, Environmental Medicine and Psychiatry
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
10 Ellis Court, Hilton Head, SC 29926
Kenneth Poon – Treasurer
Singapore
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Education Research
National Institute of Education,
Nanyang Technological University
Jennifer Zarcone – Secretary
United States of America
Senior Vice President for Adult Clinical Services and Director of Training
The May Institute
Tamar Heller – Vice-President, Americas
United States of America
Distinguished Professor,
Heads of Department – Disability and Human Development,
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and its University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
Alice Schippers – Vice-President, Europe
Netherlands
Ivan Brown – Vice President, Policy and Education, Director of the Academy, and SIRG Coordinator
Canada
Special Interest Research Group Representatives
Aging and Intellectual Disabilities
Chair – Philip McCallion
United States of America
mcclion@albany.edu
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Co-Chair – Ewelina Rydzewska
Scotland
ewelina.rydzewska@glasgow.ac.uk
Co-Chair – Yasamin Bolourian
United States
ybolo002@ucr.edu
Challenging Behaviour and Mental Health
Co-chair – Peter Langdon
United Kingdom
P.E.Langdon@kent.ac.uk
Co-chair – Mindy Scheithauer
United States
mindy.scheithauer@choa.org
Comparative Policy and Practice
Chair – Christine Linehan
Republic of Ireland
christine.linehan@ucd.ie
Down Syndrome
Chair – Rhonda Faragher
Australia
r.faragher@uq.edu.au
Ethics & Intellectual Disability
Co-Chair – Petra Bjorne
Sweden
petra.bjorne@malmo.se
Co-Chair- Ruth Northway
United Kingdom
ruth.northway@southwales.ac.uk
Families
Co-chair – Sandy Magana
United States
maganas@uic.edu
Co-chair – Sarah Dababnah
United States
sdababnah@ssw.umaryland.edu
Health Issues
Co-Chair – Esther Bakker-vanGijssel
Netherlands
Esther.Bakker-vanGijssel@radboudumc.nl
Co-Chair – Jenneken Naaldenberg
Netherlands
Jenneken.Naaldenberg@radboudumc.nl
Inclusive Education
Co-Chair – Tobias Buchner
Austria
tobias.buchner@univie.ac.at
Co-Chair – Deidre Corby
Republic of Ireland
deirdre.corby@dcu.ie
Parenting with Intellectual Disability
Chair – Marjorie Aunos
Canada
maunos.crom@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Profound Multiple Disabilities
Chair – Bea Maes
Belgium
bea.maes@kuleuven.be
Quality of Life
Co-Chair – Meaghan Edwards
Canada
meaghan.edwards@ucalgary.ca
Co-chair – Keith McVilly
Australia
keith.mcvilly@unimelb.edu.au
Governance Committee
Membership Committee
Tony Holland, M.D., Cambridge University (UK)
Mary McCarron, Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
Germain Weber, Ph.D., University of Vienna (Austria)
Bruce Tonge, M.D., Monash University (Australia)
Jennifer Zarcone, Ph.D., The May Institute (USA)
Philip W. Davidson, Ph.D., University of Rochester (USA)
Michael Guralnick, PhD., University of Washington (USA)
Jennifer Zarcone, The May Institute, US – Chair
Yasamin Bolourian, University of California Riverside, US
Peter Langdon, University of Warwick, UK
Sui Sone, Tokyo Metropolitan Higashiyamato Medical Center for Persons with Developmental/Multiple Disabilities, Japan
Keith McVilly, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Marco Lombardi, Hogeschool Gent, Belguim
Others
Ivan Brown – Director, IASSIDD Academy
Canada
ivan.brown@utoronto.ca
Rhonda Faragher – JPPID Co-Editor
Australian Catholic University, Australia
r.faragher@uq.edu.au
Laurence Taggart – JPPID Co-Editor
Ulster University, United Kingdom
l.taggart@ulster.ac.uk
Richard Hastings – JIDR Editor
United Kingdom
r.hastings@warwick.ac.uk