Deborah H Spitalnik

Deborah M. Spitalnik, PhD is a Professor of Pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the founding Executive Director of The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, New Jersey’s federally designated University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service. Dr. Spitalnik holds degrees from Brandeis University, Harvard University, and Temple University, and was a Maternal and Child Fellow at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Appointed by President Obama to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, Dr. Spitalnik is immediate past chair of the national Council on Quality and Leadership, previously served as a member and chair of PCPID, and is past president of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.