Lauren Kenworthy, PhD

Lauren Kenworthy, PhD, is a professor of neurology, pediatrics, and psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine and chief of neuropsychology and autism at Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Kenworthy received her BA from Yale University and PhD from the University of Maryland. She did internship and residency training in clinical psychology/pediatric neuropsychology at Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston, Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. Dr. Kenworthy’s research interests are in describing and treating the neuropsychological phenotype of autism. She is an author of over 120 peer-reviewed publications and a co-author of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), which has been used in over 2,500 research publications to document executive functioning in various clinical groups. Her recent publications have focused on the role of executive dysfunction in autism and its treatment and co-production with autistic colleagues. She is author of a school-based executive function intervention for neurodivergent youth, Unstuck and On Target. She has a long history of federally funded research on autism and executive function, with an emphasis on community-based research. A national and international speaker on autism and executive functions, she is the author of four books and multiple chapters on these topics.