Meghan Swanson, PhD

Meghan Swanson, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a developmental and cognitive neuroscientist. She received her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. While completing postdoctoral training in neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental disorders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was awarded a NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00).

In her research she investigates the neurobiology of early communication. She is also interested in how infants and their parents communicate and how this early communication supports brain development and later language and cognitive skills. Her current research is supported by an NIH R01, which aims to identify infant-based language and communication risk markers, caregiver-based intervention targets, and brain-based monitoring biomarkers to guide presymptomatic intervention for autism.