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Awards: 2006 Circle of Honour Recipients

Dr. Lonnie Zwaigenbaum - Research – 2006

Dr. Lonnie Zwaigenbaum is a developmental pediatrician known internationally for his research on autism. He has received national and international funding for his breakthrough research on infant siblings.

Before the infant siblings studies, there was limited information about children prior to their diagnosis of autism, which is typically made in the first two years of life. Since then, Lonnie’s high-risk baby sibling research has been instrumental in enabling clinicians to pinpoint specific behavioural predictors of autism in children as young as 12 months old, and may also provide important clues to the causes of autism.

“This is groundbreaking work that is pushing the frontier of what we know about autism,” says Dr. Colin Macarthur, Vice President of Research at Bloorview Kids Rehab. Lonnie’s work is a springboard for further research that may lead to the development of newer and earlier treatments, and help parents in seeking early intervention, which would make a significant difference in the lives of many children.

Lonnie’s continuous dedication to this cutting-edge research has placed him in an elite group of brilliant researchers in the domain of child development. His work has already improved the lives of thousands of children and their families by guiding and developing recommendations for treatment approaches for these very young children, another way the study is truly breaking new ground.

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