Dear Members
Voting for IASSIDD Board Directors for 2024 is now open. Thank you to those who submitted nominations. Eight nominations for 9 positions were received and were reviewed by the Governance Committee. All eight nominees fulfill the Bylaws criteria for Directors and are all eligible to serve on the Board, if elected.
President-elect, Angus Buchanan, Professor and Head, Curtin School of Allied Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, was nominated and elected by the Assembly in 2019 to serve as incoming President for this term, so that position is not up for election at this time.
- Nominee: Colleen Adnams
Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Disability, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Nominee: Alice Schippers
Professor of Disability Studies, University of Humanistic Studies and Director Disability Studies in Nederland
- Nominee: Mindy Scheithauer
Associate Professor, Marcus Autism Center, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
- Nominee: Ivan Brown
Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Disability Studies, Brock University, Canada
- Nominee: Laurence Taggart
Professor, Intellectual Disability Research, Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland
- Nominee: Angela Henderson
University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Name: Peter Langdon
Professor, Centre for Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, England
- Nominee: Kayla Kostal
Graduate student, University of Manitoba, Canada
Statement from Nominees
Each nominee has made a statement to support their nominations and these are attached as a PDF and on the IASSIDD website https://iassidd.org.
Questions
Contact Jennnifer Zarcone, IASSIDD Secretary at Jzarcone@mayinstitute.org.