IASSIDD Executive Members 2020-2023
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
Kenneth Poon – Treasurer
Singapore
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Education Research
National Institute of Education,
Nanyang Technological University
Ivan Brown – Vice President, Policy and Education, Director of the Academy, and SIRG Coordinator
Canada
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
Special Interest Research Group Representatives
Aging and Intellectual Disabilities
Chair – Philip McCallion
United States of America
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Co-Chair – Ewelina Rydzewska
Scotland
Co-Chair – Yasamin Bolourian
United States
Challenging Behaviour and Mental Health
Co-chair – Peter Langdon
United Kingdom
Co-chair – Mindy Scheithauer
United States
Comparative Policy and Practice
Chair – Christine Linehan
Republic of Ireland
Down Syndrome
Chair – Rhonda Faragher
Australia
Ethics & Intellectual Disability
Co-Chair – Petra Bjorne
Sweden
Co-Chair- Ruth Northway
United Kingdom
Families
Co-chair – Sandy Magana
United States
Co-chair – Sarah Dababnah
United States
Health Issues
Co-Chair – Esther Bakker-vanGijssel
Netherlands
Co-Chair – Jenneken Naaldenberg
Netherlands
Inclusive Education
Co-Chair – Tobias Buchner
Austria
Co-Chair – Deidre Corby
Republic of Ireland
Inclusive Research
Chair – Fionn Angus
Ireland
Assistant to the Chair – Jonathan Angus
Ireland
Parenting with Intellectual Disability
Chair – Marjorie Aunos
Canada
Profound Multiple Disabilities
Chair – Bea Maes
Belgium
Quality of Life
Co-Chair – Meaghan Edwards
Canada
Co-chair – Keith McVilly
Australia
Governance 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)
Michael Guralnick, PhD., University of Washington (USA)
Membership Committee
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
Rhonda Faragher – JPPID Co-Editor
Australian Catholic University, Australia
Laurence Taggart – JPPID Co-Editor
Ulster University, United Kingdom
Richard Hastings – JIDR Editor
United Kingdom