ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The University of Michigan plans to close its well-known, decade-old autism center when its director leaves this fall for a new post with a New York venture.
AnnArbor.com reports that Catherine Lord, director of the University of Michigan's Autism and Communication Disorders Center, plans to leave to head a joint effort between Columbia University
Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Lord says her two grown children who live in New York City drove her decision. The new Institute for Brain Development is to open next year.
Lord says a psychologist and a small number of researchers and staff will follow her to New York.
Lord says the Michigan center provides services for 300 to 400 people. Some federally funded research programs will continue.
