Magnificent Minds: The New Whole-Child Approach to Autism

Dr Suzanne Goh is cofounder and chief medical officer of Cortica, the largest provider of comprehensive health services for autism in the United States. Cortica began in Goh's one-room medical office in San Diego ten years ago and has grown to a staff of more than a thousand doctors and therapists who serve tens of thousands of autistic children and their families in the United States and abroad. A graduate of Harvard University, Oxford University, and Harvard Medical School, she is former co-director of Columbia University's Centre for Autism and the Developing Brain, where she conducted research on the biological causes of autism and used brain imaging to identify patterns of neural circuitry and brain chemistry. Goh is currently a faculty member of the Medical Academy of Paediatric Special Needs and is a frequent speaker for parent advocacy organisations. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband and two children.