James McPartland, PhD

James McPartland, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Director of the Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic, with training pre- and post-doctoral clinical fellowships specializing in ASD. Dr. McPartland is also Associate Director of the Developmental Electrophysiology Laboratory, a core resource designed to support interdisciplinary collaborations throughout the Yale School of Medicine. He has experience in the challenging process of recording electrophysiological activity and eye-tracking from infants, children, and adults with typical and atypical development and in training others to do so. As PI of the NIH-funded Autism Biomarker Consortium for Clinical Trials, he leads a large-scale effort to evaluate the utility of eye-tracking and EEG biomarkers in ASD. Dr. McPartland brings expertise to this project in developing the modified ET paradigms to measure ecologically relevant social stimuli related to peer interactions, create parallel social attention tasks as currently assessed with adult partners, and in analysis of outcomes.