Autism center changes name, location, leaders
The Thoughtful House Center for Children — an Austin facility geared to education, research and treatment of children with autism and other developmental disorders — has a new name, address and faces.
It is now the Johnson Center for Child Health and Development, named for Betty Wold Johnson, a prominent donor and member of the family who founded the health care company Johnson & Johnson. On Monday, the center will be move from its longtime Bee Cave Road location to 1700 Rio Grande St., Suite 200.
Thoughtful House was led by Andrew Wakefield until he resigned last year. The medical board in the United Kingdom took away his medical license for his role in a controversial 1998 study that suggested a possible link between autism, vaccines and bowel disease.
Wakefield said last year that he didn't want to be a distraction from the work of Thoughtful House, which he said was getting away from a focus on gastrointestinal issues and autism.
Anissa Ryland, executive director of the Johnson Center, said the organization does not collaborate with Wakefield or a doctor who worked with Wakefield at the center, Dr. Arthur Krigsman.
Another physician who worked with Wakefield and Krigsman, Dr. Brian Jepson, also has left the center.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/central-texas-digest-autism-center-gets-new-name-1459998.html
The Thoughtful House Center for Children — an Austin facility geared to education, research and treatment of children with autism and other developmental disorders — has a new name, address and faces.
It is now the Johnson Center for Child Health and Development, named for Betty Wold Johnson, a prominent donor and member of the family who founded the health care company Johnson & Johnson. On Monday, the center will be move from its longtime Bee Cave Road location to 1700 Rio Grande St., Suite 200.
Thoughtful House was led by Andrew Wakefield until he resigned last year. The medical board in the United Kingdom took away his medical license for his role in a controversial 1998 study that suggested a possible link between autism, vaccines and bowel disease.
Wakefield said last year that he didn't want to be a distraction from the work of Thoughtful House, which he said was getting away from a focus on gastrointestinal issues and autism.
Anissa Ryland, executive director of the Johnson Center, said the organization does not collaborate with Wakefield or a doctor who worked with Wakefield at the center, Dr. Arthur Krigsman.
Another physician who worked with Wakefield and Krigsman, Dr. Brian Jepson, also has left the center.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/central-texas-digest-autism-center-gets-new-name-1459998.html
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