Marsha R. Mailick, PhD, is emeritus vice chancellor for research and graduate education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), and continues her research at the Waisman Center in the Lifespan Family Research Lab. The focus of Mailick’s research is the life-course trajectory of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Her current research includes a 22-year longitudinal study of autism during adolescence and adulthood, a 17-year study of FXS during these life stages, and several research projects on demographically-representative samples of parents of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. She recently completed an epidemiological study of the premutation of FXS and a 20-year follow-up of a cohort of older adults with Down syndrome, examining how the family environment predicts outcomes (including dementia status) in midlife and old age.