Michael Fitzgerald

Michael Fitzgerald was the Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and was the first Professor of Child Psychiatry in Ireland. He has served as a Clinical and Research Consultant to the Irish Society for Autism and is an Honorary Member of the Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations.

Dr. Fitzgerald holds a doctorate in the field of autism and has been a researcher in this area since 1973. He received his training at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin, Chicago Medical School, the Maudsley Hospital, and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London.

He has clinically diagnosed over 2,000 individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome and served on the Government Task Force on Autism and the Family. He has contributed to both national and international journals on autism and is the author of over 120 publications. He has written or co-written 20 books.