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Free webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern time (US), Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Tune in to hear about The ASSERT Project. The ASSERT: All StakeholderS Engaged in Research Together project seeks to engage people on the autism spectrum, with Down syndrome, or with other intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) along with caregivers, clinicians, and researchers. Our goal is to build an online learning community where these stakeholders learn about research together in a way that is collaborative and multidirectional (all learners gain knowledge from each other). Through this project, stakeholders will “assert” themselves and make their voices heard as they work together as partners in research to improve health outcomes.

About the speakers:

Dr. Beth Malow is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Malow was a tenured associate professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program and the General Clinical Research Center Sleep Program. She received her B.S. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 1984 and her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. She then did her internship in Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY from 1987-88. Her residency in the Harvard-Longwood Neurological Training Program in Boston, MA from 1988-91 was followed by a fellowship in epilepsy, EEG, and sleep at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD from 1991-94. Learn more about Dr. Malow.

 Susan Brasher, PhD, RN, CPNP, FAAN, is an Assistant Professor, tenure track, and has an extensive pediatric background in both the inpatient setting as a Registered Nurse in a pediatric dedicated hospital and in the outpatient setting as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP). She has several years of experience teaching Pediatric Nursing to both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Florida with an emphasis on pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically autism spectrum disorder. She has served as a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I) of numerous funded grants focusing on Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has several years of experience as PI, Co-I, and project coordinator of multiple funded patient-centered outcomes research institute (PCORI) awards working with community members and research teams to address health disparities of children and young adults on the autism spectrum. She has served as a PCORI ambassador since 2018 to expand knowledge and participation in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) across the country. Learn more about Dr. Brasher.

SPECIAL TIME – Free webinar at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time (US), October 29, 2025

Tune in to hear Adrien Eshraghi, MD, MSc, FACS, a 2022 ARI grant recipient, discuss the ongoing translational research in his lab.

About the speaker:

Dr. Adrien Eshraghi is board certified in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. He is Board Certified in Neurotology. He served as the past President of the Florida Society of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.

His training and experience at Sorbonne University in Paris, UCLA, and University of Miami encompasses medical, surgical, holistic, and integrative approaches to disease management. By combining these approaches, he provides comprehensive management of Ear and Hearing Disorders (Otology and Neurotology)

He is a surgeon-scientist with over 200 scientific papers published (H-Index 50), over 500 presentations at national and international scientific meetings. He is selected by his peers to be one of the “Top Doctors” and “Best Doctors in America” yearly since 2012. He is ranked as one of the Top 2% Scientists in 2024 that are leading the minds in science (Stanford University Top’s 2% Scientist List in the world).