Frederick Shic, PhD

Frederick Shic, PhD, is Director of the Seattle Children’s Innovative Technologies Laboratory, Center for Child Health, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. He has a long history using eye-tracking technology to understand autism, leading and/or contributing to the design and advancement of eye tracking as a marker for autism in over a dozen funded projects involving over a dozen sites, 50 different experimental paradigms, 6,000 recorded eye tracking datasets, and thousands of infants, children, and adults -- the majority at-risk for or diagnosed with ASD. Dr. Shic is co-director of the multi-site Data Acquisition and Analysis Core for the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials, a project aimed at validating and enhancing next generation autism biomarkers, with a specific emphasis on eye tracking. He brings specialized expertise to this project in the implementation, quality control considerations with preschool-age children with ASD, and eye-tracking data acquisition and analysis.