Susan Hyman MD

Susan L. Hyman, MD, FAAP practices Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Golisano Children's Hospital of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. In addition to clinical assessment and management of children and youth with autism and other developmental disabilities, Dr. Hyman teaches medical students, residents, Fellows and other professional trainees and maintains an active research program focused on medical comorbidities of autism, interventions for autism, and diet and nutrition of children with autism. She is co-PI of the Rochester site of the Autism Treatment Network. In addition, she is the chair of the Autism Subcommittee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. As such she advises the AAP Committee on Children with Disabilities and is responsible for the revised version of the AAP Toolkit on Autism for pediatric health care providers.