Founded more than 40 years ago, the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (RFK IDDRC) has long been at the forefront of research on brain development and function, while simultaneously providing clinical care for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). It is also one of the oldest designated University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Research, Education and Service (UCEDD) and, as such, has intimate links to Einstein’s UCEDD clinical arm - the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC).
CERC provides clinicians and investigators with the challenge and opportunity of working with large numbers of IDD-related conditions in the genetically diverse and socioeconomically compromised population of the Bronx.
Demonstrating further integration within Einstein’s RFK IDDRC, the UCEDD is also home to the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Program, one of only 38 in the United States, which supports interdisciplinary clinical training for medical and allied health professionals who care for individuals with special healthcare needs.
Highlights
3rd Annual Isabelle Rapin Conference on Communication Disorders: Rett Syndrome (Wednesday, December 10, 2014)
On a rainy Wednesday in early December, over 100 doctors and scientists crowded into the Price Center’s LeFrak Auditorium to hear keynote speakers Dr. Huda Zoghbi of the Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Michael Green of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Monica Coenraads, executive director of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT), along with faculty from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, present on many topics ranging from advances in translational research to novel therapeutic approaches related to some of the most common comorbidities specific to Rett Syndrome patients.