Autism Awareness

April is “Autism Awareness Month” and Mark Blaxill is stopping by Holistic Wellness to talk about autism.

Mark Blaxill is the father of a daughter diagnosed with autism, editor at large for “Age of Autism,” a Vice President of “SafeMinds“ and a frequent speaker at autism conferences. He writes often on autism, science and public policy issues for Age of Autism and has published a number of articles, letters and commentaries on autism in journals such as Public Health Reports, the International Journal of Toxicology, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Neurotoxicology and Medical Hypotheses. He has also been invited to peer review articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Epidemiology, Pediatrics and the International Journal of Toxicology.

Mark received a bachelors degree summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. In his professional career, he is Managing Partner for 3LP Advisors, an advisory firm focused on intellectual property transactions. He recently published a business book, The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property (Portfolio, March 2009) and is teaming with Dan Olmsted to write a book, called The Age of Autism, due out in September 2010.