Kelsey Martin

Kelsey Martin serves as the Executive Vice President for Autism and Neuroscience at the Simons Foundation since September 2021, also directing the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) and Neuroscience Collaborations. Concurrently, Kelsey has been a Professor at UCLA since July 1999 and held the position of Dean at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA from September 2015 to August 2021. Kelsey Martin's academic background includes an AB in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University, a Postdoctoral fellowship in Neurobiology from Columbia University, and an MD/PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale School of Medicine.