Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Immunology Executive Director, Center of Excellence for Neuroinflammation Research Institute of Neuro-Immune Medicine, Nova Southeastern University
Dr. Theoharis C. Theoharides is an internationally recognized physician-scientist and immunologist whose work has been highly influential in the neuroimmune understanding of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions. He completed his entire academic and medical training at Yale University, earning a BA, MS, MPhil, PhD, and MD, reflecting an interdisciplinary formation spanning biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
Dr. Theoharides is currently Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Immunology and Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for Neuroinflammation Research at Nova Southeastern University. His pioneering research on mast cell biology, neuroinflammation, immune–brain interactions, and blood–brain barrier dysfunction has provided key mechanistic insights into inflammatory processes increasingly recognized in subsets of autistic individuals with complex neuroimmune phenotypes.