Dr. Lee Wachtel

Lee Wachtel is the Medical Director of the Neurobehavioral Unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She completed her residency and fellowship training at the University of Maryland, and joined the faculty at Kennedy Krieger in 2003. She has developed extensive expertise over the past twenty years in the treatment of severe behavioral and psychiatric presentations in ASD, including the variable manifestations of catatonia and appropriate treatment with electroconvulsive therapy. She has published extensively and lectured throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Israel.