Dr. Stelios Georgiades is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Director of the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University, the inaugural holder of the McMaster Children’s Hospital Chair in Autism and Neurodevelopment, and has been named a McMaster University Scholar. He is a member of the 2025 class of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. He is also currently a member of the Board of Directors for Children’s Healthcare Canada. His program of research investigates the factors influencing developmental trajectories of children and youth with autism and neurodevelopmental conditions. The overarching objective of this research is to generate new knowledge that will lead to more precise, equitable and personalized evidence-based interventions and service systems for children and their families. For more than a decade he has been working closely with provincial and federal stakeholders to advance science, improve care, and shape autism-related programs and policies for autistic children, youth and their families across Canada.
Dr. Georgiades is the Founder and Co-Director of the McMaster Autism Research Team (MacART), an interdisciplinary collaborative aiming to advance autism care through meaningful research. This includes the Pediatric Autism Research Cohort (PARC) Study, a CIHR-funded project which will map variability in developmental pathways and examine different individual and contextual level factors influencing outcomes in Autistic young children and their families. Dr. Georgiades is Co-lead for the McMaster site for the Pathways in ASD study, a Canada-wide longitudinal study of children and youth with autism – the largest of its kind, and the largest longitudinal autism study to date. Dr. Georgiades is a Co-PI on a new national study, “Examination of the Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic Response on Health and Functioning of Canadian Children and Youth” (in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada). Dr. Georgiades is leading a National Stakeholder Dialogue for the creation of a Pan-Canadian Learning Health System for Neurodevelopmental Disorders where, through clinical and stakeholder co-design of a new clinical intake tool, data collected will inform care for children and their families while simultaneous evaluation of the care system will promote an iterative cycle for continuous optimization.
