Joseph Piven, M.D.

Email: jpiven@med.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 843-8641


Education:

B.S., Psychology, University of Maryland

M.D., Medicine, University of Maryland

26 credits towards M.S. in Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University

Internship, Internal Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona

Residency, Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Registrar to Professor Michael Rutter, Children’s Dept, Maudsley Hospital, London, England

Fellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Fellowship, Psychiatric Genetics, John Merck Scholars Program in Developmental Disabilities, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 

Summary Statement:

Dr. Joseph Piven’s research focus is on the pathogenesis of autism including neural mechanisms, genetic basis and neuropsychological and behavioral phenotype. He serves as Director for the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities and is Editor in Chief of The Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Dr. Piven is also the Principal Investigator for the NIH ACE Network on the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS).
 

Representative Publications:

1. Hazlett HC, Poe MD, Gerig G, Smith RG, Provenzale J, Ross A, Gilmore J, Piven J. Magnetic resonance imaging and head circumference study of brain size in autism: birth through age two years. The Archives of General Psychiatry. 62(12): 1366-76, December 2005.

2. Losh M, Adolphs R, Poe M, Couture S, Penn D, Baranek G, Piven J. The Neuropsychological Profile of Autism and the Broad Autism Phenotype. Archives of General Psychiatry May 2009; 66: 518-526.

3. Mosconi M, Hazlett H, Poe M, Gerig G, Smith R, Piven J. A longitudinal Study of Amygdala Volume and Joint Attention in 2-4 Year Old Children with Autism. Archives of General Psychiatry May 2009; 66: 509-516.