Hoeft, Fumiko
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MD PhD at UCSF Parnassus</p>
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Harvard Neurophy
Caltech computation and neural
Stfd Dev Cog neurosci 2005</p>
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GENERAL: Fumiko Hoeft MD PhD is <b>Associate Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry</b> and <b>Dyslexia Cente</b>r, and Director of UCSF Hoeft Laboratory for Educational Neuroscience (brainLENS.org). She is also Scientific Advisor of the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Center for Childhood Creativity (BADM’s CCC), Board Member of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), and serves as Neuroscientist-in-residence at schools and organizations. She received research training at Harvard, UCLA, Caltech and Stanford. Dr. Hoeft’s current research program focuses on brain development, and brain mechanisms underlying skill acquisition such as language and reading, and educationally relevant concepts such as motivation, mindset, grit and stereotype threat. She is particularly passionate for her research in dyslexia and autism. Recent honors include the Norman Geschwind Memorial Lectureship from the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), and Transforming Education
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