Zachary J. "Zack" Williams, B.S.

Zack Williams is an autistic M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University. He is also an affiliate of the Vanderbilt University Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, co-chair of the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) Autistic Researchers Review Board, and co-chair of the INSAR Autistic Researchers Committee, as well as the co-founder of Autism PROMnet. He received his B.S. in psychology from Yale University in 2017, where he was heavily involved in autism research at the Yale Child Study Center. Zack's current research focuses on the sensory manifestations of autism in adulthood, the assessment and treatment of co-occurring physical and mental health problems in autistic adults, and the development of novel questionnaires and clinical measures to assess core and associated features of autism across the lifespan. He works closely with the REAACT team to develop and validate new psychometric tools that capture suicidality and associated risk factors in autistic adults. You can follow him on Twitter at @QuantPsychiatry.