Frederick Shic, PhD

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics

6200 NE 74th St, Ste 110
Seattle, WA 98115-8160
Phone: 206 884 8162
Email: Frederick.shic@seattlechildrens.org
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Clinical, Research and/or Teaching Responsibilities

Frederick Shic, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in University of Washington's Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Shic's current research interests include applications of eye-tracking and functional near infrared spectroscopy to the study of the social and cognitive development in infants, toddlers, and children with autism and other development disorders, and the development of new technologies and methodologies for enriching both our understanding of neuropsychiatric conditions and the lives of affected children and their families. Previously, as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Shic led the Technology and Innovation Laboratory at Yale University's Child Study Center.

Prior to this, he was an Associate Research Scientist under Dr. Katarzyna Chawarska at the Infant and Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic and Yale Early Social Cognition Laboratory, also at Yale University. Dr. Shic completed an NIMH T32 training program in childhood neuropsychiatric disorders led Drs. James Leckman and Elena Grigorenko in the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Shic received his doctorate in Computer Science from Yale University and an undergraduate degree in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the California Institute of Technology.

During his graduate work, Dr. Shic developed computational and mathematical approaches for analyzing eye-tracking data, with a focus on what these techniques can tell us about the social and cognitive development of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Prior to this, Dr. Shic was software engineer at the Sony Interactive Studios of America, and, later, a researcher at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes, where he conducted research in 1H and 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), developing techniques for quantifying and visualizing brain metabolism and neurochemistry.

Frederick Shic and team

Today Dr. Shic leads the Seattle Children's Innovative Technologies Laboratory at the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute. This laboratory has the goal of using technology to improve the lives of individuals with ASD and the lives of their families, combining expertise in technology with expertise in developmental science to create a bridge between where a child with autism is, and where he or she can be. The methods used by this laboratory include biomarker and software development, robotics, complex analytics, and hardware engineering.

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Division Chief

Mangione-Smith, Rita M., MD, MPH

Faculty

Baker, Barbara J., MN, ARNP, IBCLC
Bell, Shaquita L., MD
Bennett-Kaufman, Molly, ARNP
Bergman, Abraham, MD
Bledsoe, Julia M., MD
Burton Cahn, Monique, MD
Caldwell, Christine, MD
Capron, Molly, MD, MPH
Christakis, Dimitri A., MD, MPH
Coker, Tumaini Rucker , MD, MBA
Danielson, Benjamin S., MD
Davies, Julian K., MD
Dawson-Hahn, Elizabeth, MD, MPH
Denno, Donna M., MD, MPH
Desai, Arti D., MD, MSPH
Ebel, Beth E., MD, MSc, MPH
Feldman, Kenneth W., MD
Gillenwater, Kari, MD, MPH
Grant, Abigail, MD
Grow, H. Mollie Greves, MD, MPH
Henne, Heather M., MD
Hofstetter, Annika M., MD, PhD, MPH
Ibrahim, Anisa, MD
Jenny, Carole, MD, MBA
Jinguji, Thomas, MD
Johnson, Nicole, MD
Johnston, Brian D., MD, MPH
Justus, Jacqueline, ARNP
Karr, Catherine J., MD, PhD, MS
Kertesz, Cynthia T., MD, FAAP
Kroshus, Emily, ScD, MPH
Lewis, Charlotte W., MD, MPH
Lion, K. Casey, MD, MPH
Liu, Lenna L., MD, MPH
Lockhart, John H., MD
Malik, Faisal S, MD, MS
McCarty, Carolyn A., PhD
McDermott, Kimberly J., MD
McPhillips, Heather A., MD, MPH
Melzer, Sanford M., MD, MBA
Mendoza, Jason A, MD, MPH
Metz, James B., MD
Morelli, Sheryl A., MD, MS
Nagle, Kyle, MD, MPH
Opel, Douglas J., MD, MPH
Pak-Gorstein, Suzinne, MD, MPH, PhD
Park, Kathleen J, MD, MPH
Pew, Catharine M., MD
Quitiquit, Celeste , MD
Rivara, Frederick P., MD, MPH
Saelens, Brian E., PhD
Sathyanarayana, Sheela, MD, MPH
Shic, Frederick, PhD
Simon, Tamara D., MD, MSPH
Stout, James W., MD, MPH
Tandon, Pooja S., MD
Taylor, James A., MD
Vavilala, Monica S., MD
Waite, Whitney M, MD, MPH
Wiester, Rebecca T., MD
Wright, Davene R., PhD
Zhou, Chuan, PhD

Fellows

Akanke, Tokunbo, MDDS, MPH
Brown, Emily, MD
Bryan, Mersine, MD
Connell, Sarah K., MD
DeCou, Stephen, PhD
Killien, Elizabeth, MD
Kodali, Sindhura, MD
Mooney, Stephen, PhD
Sadeghian, Reza, MD
Tessler, Robert, MD

Administrative Staff

Clare, Christine,
Hamilton, Maria
Hart, Rebecca
Marchand, Ann,
Musar, Cyndi
Sargent, Sue
Shuey, Suzanne
Warren, Louise,