CONFERENCES
Families with Autism Helping Families with Autism
Speakers
Dan Rossignol, MD received his Doctorate of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Virginia. He is now a physician at the International Child Development Resource Center (ICDRC) in Melbourne, FL. The father of two children with autism, ages eight and six, he has written several papers, including four on the use of HBOT in autism, one on the use of urinary porphyrins data in autism, one on mitochondrial dysfunction in autism, and a review article on biomedical treatments for autism and ADHD.
Anju Usman, MD is the medical director of True Health Medical Center and Pure Compounding Pharmacy in Naperville, Illinois. She specializes in the biomedical treatment of children with Autism/ADD and developmental delays. She has been involved in researching copper/zinc imbalances, metallothionein dysfunction, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, nucca adjustments and chronic infections in ASD patients. She is actively involved in the Defeat Autism Now! movement as a speaker and advisor. She is also co-founder of ACE (Autism Center for Enlightenment), a non-profit dedicated to education, research, and support for families. Dr. Usman received her medical degree from Indiana University. She completed a residency in Family Practice at Cook County Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois and is board certified in Family Practice.
Lauren Underwood, PhD received her PhD in biology from Tulane University. Following graduation, she was awarded an NIH Post-Doctoral Training Grant Fellowship in vision research. She is the parent of a child recovering from autism and a health educator/biomedical consultant for families of autistic children. Dr. Underwood is a Senior Staff Scientist for SSAI, Inc. supporting NASA. She is a Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) IRB board member and has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals.
Kyle Van Dyke, MD is board certified in family medicine. He studied engineering physics as an undergraduate before attending medical school at the University of Chicago. He became involved in autism after the diagnosis of his son, Ryan. He worked with Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, the medical director of Defeat Autism Now!, for three years before starting his own practice at the Wisconsin Integrative Hyperbaric Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Lt. Commander Ryan Rupe is a Navy Chaplain currently serving the Coast Guard in the Great Lakes area. He is a graduate of Ripon College in Wisconsin and received his Masters of Divinity from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and is currently pursuing his doctorate. Before becoming an active duty chaplain in 2002, he was a parish pastor in Houston for four years. Chaplain Rupe spends the majority of his time counseling individuals and couples in crisis and has deep experience in grief support and conflict resolution.