She currently serves as a member of the International Advisory Board for The Lancet Psychiatry,[2] as co-chair of the Scientific Research Council of the Child Mind Institute,[3] and as the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.
Lord is also known for leading one of the largest and longest-running longitudinal studies of autism and related developmental conditions in modern research.
[5][6] She has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 10 books about autism through this study and others.
[11] Lord currently directs the Lord Lab at UCLA, where she serves as the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine[12] and as a senior research scientist in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
She also mentors a small group of PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical trainees.