{"id":14667,"date":"2023-03-16T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2023-10-05T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:39:45","slug":"a-message-from-dr-wendy-chung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/2023\/03\/16\/a-message-from-dr-wendy-chung\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message From Dr. Wendy Chung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to share some exciting news with all of you. After over a decade as the director of clinical research at the <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Foundation<\/span> Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), I have accepted a new opportunity as the pediatrician-in-chief and chair of pediatrics at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital in Massachusetts. I am honored to join a talented team of doctors and researchers. This appointment is a reflection of the many contributions our patient advocacy communities and families have made over the years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14668\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-scaled.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/16061452\/2110_Simons-23-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong>Please rest assured that even though I am transitioning to Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, I will remain the principal investigator of <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SFARI and the <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Foundation<\/span> remain dedicated to <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span> and autism research. Our study\u2019s recruitment, engagement, retention, and research will continue uninterrupted. Your participation will remain the same as well. You will still interact with the program team, you will log in to the same dashboard to complete surveys, and researchers will continue to access all the de-identified data through the SFARI Base portal.<\/p>\n<p>This transition will afford many exciting new opportunities to increase the impact of <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span>, including finding new challenges to address and new data to collect that speaks to those challenges.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep you informed and we welcome any questions you might have about this news. Looking forward to seeing many of you again this summer and fall at your family conferences.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Chung<br \/>\nPrincipal Investigator, <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important announcement from Dr. Wendy Chung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14671,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions\/14671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}