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TNC Faculty
Audrey Thurm, PhD
Faculty, Harvard Medical School; Faculty, Translational Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. Thurm is a clinical scientist and a child clinical psychologist focused on phenotyping and outcome measures for genetic conditions associated with neurodevelopmental disorders (GCAND). She is an investigator on the Rare Disease Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) Developmental Synaptopathies Consortium, as well as on several other collaborative studies focused on understanding phenotypes of specific conditions and harmonization of data across natural history and clinical trial studies. Dr. Thurm leverages her expertise in understanding developmental trajectories of neurodevelopmental disorders to study measures for use in clinical trials to establish meaningful change, in partnership with the TNC, scientific collaborators, and the patient and family community.
Dr. Thurm is board certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from DePaul University after completing her year of internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University/Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Thurm spent over two decades working at the National Institute of Mental Health, serving various roles in both extramural and intramural programs, including initiating and directing a Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service that has provided her with extensive experience in conducting research regarding the assessment and diagnosis of children with rare genetic disorders.