Antonio Hardan, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and
Carl Feinstein Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Stanford University
Director, Autism and Developmental Disorders Clinic, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
Dr. Antonio Hardan is a Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. He is the Carl Feinstein Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the Autism and Developmental Disorders Clinic at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. Dr. Hardan has more than 20 years’ experience assessing and treating children and adults with developmental disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Over the years, he has won several teaching awards including the John Romano Award at the University of Rochester and the “Outstanding Teacher” at Stanford University.
Dr. Hardan’s research expertise is in the neurobiology of ASD and in the development of innovative treatment for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. He served as a principal investigator on numerous projects examining the neurobiology of ASD and assessing the efficacy of a wide range of interventions including arginine vasopressin, N-Acetylcysteine, everolimus, pregnenolone, and pivotal response treatment. More recently, he was part of a team that was awarded an Autism Center of Excellence that aims at examining sleep physiology in ASD. Additionally, he is the developer of 2 new instruments the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale and the Dimensional Assessment of Restricted/Repetitive behaviors. Finally, Dr. Hardan has published more than 130 journal articles and has co-authored several book chapters in the field of developmental disorders and ASD.