Vitae ADELE DIAMOND Home Address and Phone: Department of Psychiatry 2981 W 45th Ave. University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6N 3L6 2255 Wesbrook Mall Canada Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 2A1 ph: 604 822-7220 fax: 604 822-7232 604 266-2341 lab: 604 827-3074 email: [email protected] website: www.devcogneuro.com POSITIONS HELD at the University of British Columbia: 2018 - Founding Member, Educational Neuroscience & Healthy Child Development Cluster, UBC 2011 - Member, Kids Brain Health Network (formerly known as NeuroDevNet) dedicated to helping children overcome neurodevelopmental disorders 2010 - Founding Member, Centre for Interdisciplinary Res. & Collaboration in Autism, UBC 2008 - Head, Program in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Psychiatry, UBC 2007 - 2009 Faculty Fellow, Green College, UBC 2006 - Founding Fellow, Institute of Mental Health, UBC 2005 - Associate Member, Department of Psychology, UBC 2004 - Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, UBC, Vancouver Member: Centre for Brain Health, UBC; Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP); Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI); Graduate Program in Neuroscience; Undergraduate Program in Cognitive Systems, UBC at the Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School: 2000 - 2004 Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 1997 - 2004 Director, Center for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center Campus, Waltham, MA Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1997 - 1999 Sr. Scientist, Psych. Sci.s Div. & Adjunct Sr. Scientist, Biomed. Sci.s Div., Shriver Center 1996 - 1997 Associate Scientist, Psychological Sciences Division, Shriver Center, Waltham, MA at MIT: 1995 – 1996 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA at the University of Pennsylvania: 1993 - 1995 Director, Neuropsychology and Behavior Analysis Core of the Mental Retardation Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania 1991 - 1995 Member, Neuroscience Graduate Group & Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences 1990 - 1993 Director, Developmental Neuropsychology Section, MR Research Center, Children's Hospital 1988 - 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Member, Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, Univ. of Penn. Sch. of Medicine Member, Inst. for Res. in Cognitive Sci., & Program on the Bio. Bases of Behavior, UPenn at Washington University: 1986 - 1988 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis TABLE OF CONTENTS Section (To go directly to a section, with your cursor over the section page name, click ‘control, left-mouse’) Short Biosketch .............................................................................................. 3 Education and Training ................................................................................... 4 Research Interests ........................................................................................ 4 – 6 Grant Support ........................................................................................ 6 – 11 Awards & Honors ....................................................................................... 12 – 18 Keynotes and Plenary Addresses ................................................................ 18 – 21 Media Coverage ......................................................................................... 22 – 35 Videos of Adele Diamond ........................................................................... 35 – 39 Significant Contributions ............................................................................ 40 – 56 Teaching Experience ...................................................................................... 56 Directed studies courses taught at UBC ............................................................... 60 Other courses taught by Prof. Diamond .............................................................. 61 Students Supervised and/or Co-Supervised at UBC ............................................... 62 Undergraduate Independent Studies ................................................................. 64 Training Others on our Neurocognitive Tasks ............................................. 68 – 96 Professional Affiliations ................................................................................. 96 Professional Activities ................................................................................... 97 Conferences Organized .................................................................................. 98 Symposia Organized ...................................................................................... 98 Board and Committee Membership ................................................................... 98 Consultant and Advisor ................................................................................. 101 Reviewer of Grant Applications ....................................................................... 103 Member of Editorial Boards ........................................................................... 104 Ad hoc Reviewer ......................................................................................... 104 University Service ......................................................................................... 106 Organized or Co-Organized ............................................................................ 106 Membership on Committees .......................................................................... 106 Other Service to the University ....................................................................... 106 Other Professional Service ........................................................................... 109 Community Service ...................................................................................... 110 Volunteer Mentor to Junior Faculty ................................................................. 113 Active Collaborations ................................................................................... 113 Invited Talks ............................................................................................. 115 – 160 Juried Presentations at Conferences ........................................................ 161 – 165 Publications .................................................................................................. 166 SHORT BIOSKETCH Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC is the Canada Research Chair Tier I Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada. A member of the Royal Society of Canada, she has been named one of the “2000 Outstanding Women of the 20th Century” and has been listed as one the 15 most influential neuroscientists alive today. She was educated at Swarthmore (BA, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard (PhD), and Yale Medical School (postdoc). Prof. Diamond is recognized as a world leader in the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience as evidenced by impact, awards, success in research funding, leadership roles, and abundant invitations to speak across disciplines, professions, and nations. Indeed, she helped found the field. She has held federal research grants continuously for over 30 years (since her first semester as a faculty member) and overseen over $24 million in research funding. She has given over 500 keynote addresses and invited talks, including at the White House as well as in 23 other countries across 5 continents. Her work has been cited over 44,000 times and has an h-index of 69. She heads the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Program at UBC, serves on 18 external advisory boards and 8 editorial boards, including those of all 3 major journals in Developmental Psychology. Her many awards include the Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association, the International Mind, Brain and Education Society’s Translation Award (the highest award that society gives), and an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University. Prof. Diamond’s specialty is executive functions, which depend on the brain’s prefrontal cortex and interrelated neural regions. Executive functions enable us to resist temptations and automatic impulsive reactions, stay focused, mentally play with ideas, reason, problem-solve, flexibly adjust to changed demands or priorities, and see things from new and different perspectives. Prof. Diamond’s lab studies how executive functions are affected by biological factors (such as genes and neurochemistry) and by environmental ones (for example, impaired by stress or improved by interventions). She has demonstrated that executive functions emerge and can be assessed as early as the first year of life, and shown that interventions can improve executive functions even in very young children. Her work has demonstrated ways to help children grasp concepts and succeed at tasks long thought beyond their ability and has changed how people think about cognitive development in emphasizing the importance of inhibiting reactions that get in the way of demonstrating knowledge that is already present. Her work on the unusual properties of the dopamine system in prefrontal cortex led to her identifying the biological mechanism causing