Dr. Serena Wieder is the Clinical Director and a founding member of the Profectum Foundation, dedicated to advancing the development and infant mental health of all children, including children, adolescents and adults with autism and special needs through training and educational programs. She also co-founded the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders with the late Stanley Greenspan. Dr. Wieder is a Board Member of Zero to Three and also serves on advisory boards to various programs serving infant mental health and other special needs.  She established DIR®-Israel and provides consultation and training to international and national programs.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Wieder has pioneered important approaches to diagnosing and treating infants and toddlers with infant mental health and developmental disorders.  She co-developed the DIR® model with Stanley Greenspan, edited two diagnostic manuals for infants and young children, and created models for interdisciplinary post-graduate case based training and work with parents. She has co-chaired and organized national and international conferences integrating development, neuroscience and intervention approaches for nearly 20 years. Dr. Wieder also developed approaches to integrate visual-spatial knowledge to advance emotional and cognitive development.  Her research interests concern follow up studies of children on the autism spectrum who have received DIR® model comprehensive interventions and the evaluation of training and educational programs.

Dr. Serena Wieder co-authored Engaging Autism, The Child With Special Needs and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health with Stanley Greenspan, M.D. They also co-edited Infants in Multi-Risk Families as well as the ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children (DMIC) and the original Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC 03).  Most recently, Dr. Wieder co-authored Visual Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling, and Movement with Harry Wachs, O.D. She has published numerous journal and book chapters and presents at multiple conferences nationally and internationally.

Cuong Do is President and Chief Executive Officer of BioVie Inc., a company developing treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Liver Diseases.  He was formerly President of Samsung's Global Strategy Group, where he helped lead the group’s strategy and growth efforts.  Prior to Samsung, Cuong served as the Chief Strategy Officer for Merck, Tyco Electronics, and Lenovo.  He was also a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he spent 17 years and helped build the Firm’s healthcare, high-tech, and corporate finance practices.

In 2011, he co-founded Profectum with Monica Osgood, Ricki Robinson, and Serena Wieder to create a home for talented clinicians working with the DIR® model.  He advanced the notion that no single intervention approach can work by itself and worked closely with the Profectum faculty to create the Foundational Capacities for Development (FCD) model.

He was active in the building of Autism Speaks, Celebrate the Children School, the EMBRACE Program at Florida State University, and other organizations supporting individuals with special needs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business. He currently serves or previously served on the boards of Adagene, Autism Speak, BioVie, Celebrate the Children, Caring for Cambodia, Curve Financial, Fulbright University Vietnam, Hope Trust, ILiAD Biotechnologies, the Institute for Exceptional Care, the National Youth Science Foundation, Newark Academy, RenalSense, the Tuck School of Business, and WuXi AppTec.  He was founder and Chairman of Callidus Biopharma, Lysodel Therapeutics, and M6P Therapeutics.

Monica G. Osgood is a founding member of Profectum Foundation. She is an experienced behavioral consultant and therapist who specializes in using developmental approaches to support children with autism and other differences in relating and communicating. Monica has worked in homes, therapy centers, and private and public school settings for over 20 years. Some of her experience has included assessment and the development of intervention programs, curriculum and IEP development, and parent and professional training.

In 1998, Monica created the first public school program with the Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based (DIR®) model approach as the core philosophy. ​In 2000, she was the first educator to join the senior faculty of the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) to provide interdisciplinary training in the DIR® model. During her time with ICDL, Monica served as faculty for all of their yearly training institutes, spoke at many of their conferences and had the opportunity to work closely and collaborate with Drs. Greenspan and Wieder to further develop the DIR® model in school settings. ​In 2004, she collaborated with Lauren Blaszak to open a state-approved, DIR® model school for children ages 3-21 in Denville, New Jersey (Celebrate the Children), now serving over 70 school districts and 130 families.

Ricki Robinson, MD, MPH. is co-director of Descanso Medical Center for Development and Learning in La Canada, California and a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Keck School Medicine of USC. She has been in private pediatric practice for nearly forty years, specializing in children with autism and developmental delays for over twenty-five years. Dr. Robinson received her MD degree in 1973 from the University of Southern California. She trained in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, having served as Chief Pediatric Resident for CHLA in 1976. She is board certified in pediatrics. In 1988 she received her MPH from the University at Berkeley School of Public Health.

Dr. Robinson has been actively involved in the field of autism since 1990, developing multidisciplinary educational and medical programs for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and devoting endless hours in education, legislation and research efforts on a national level. Dr. Robinson has been at the forefront of leading grassroots autism organizations. She was a founding board member of Cure Autism Now (now Autism Speaks) and the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), and most recently Profectum Foundation. She was a member of the Autism Speaks Scientific Review Panel for over eight years. Dr. Robinson organized and chaired the first nationally recognized task force to define the standard of care for clinical trials in autism. The results of this outstanding effort were published in CNS Spectrums (January 2004, Vol. 9, #1). Most recently she was appointed as Medical Director of Profectum Foundation, an organization devoted to providing multi-disciplinary education and training for parents, families and professionals working with individuals with ASD across the lifespan.

A nationally sought-after expert, she has appeared on the Today Show, The Talk, Larry King Live and Good Morning America Health in support of the needs of children and families with autism spectrum disorders. She is an internationally recognized speaker addressing the needs of children with autism and other developmental delays to parent, professional and lay audiences worldwide for the past two decades. She is also the author of the acclaimed book Autism Solutions – How to Create a Healthy and Meaningful Life for Your Child.