Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center At UMMS Names Jean Frazier Director

Jean A. Frazier, M.D., was named the director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), a program that brings together three entities — the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Initiative (CANDI), the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CANDO), and the former Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Frazier, the Robert M. and Shirley S. Siff Chair in Autism, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, and vice chair and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, took over her role on July 1, 2015. She was previously the director of child . . .