William M. McMahon, M.D.

Title: Professor
Current Position: Chairman

Education/Training

Karl Manwaring Memorial Award, Utah Tourette Syndrome Association, 1997
Outstanding Services To Children and Families, Utah Association of School Psychologists, 2002
Mentor for Eli Lilly Pilot Research Award to Hong Shen by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002
Mentor for Eli Lilly Pilot Research Award to Susan Wiet by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002
Co-Mentor for Eli Lilly Pilot Research Award to Philip Baese by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004

South, M., Ozonoff, S., & McMahon, W. (2007). The relationship between executive functioning, central coherence, and repetitive behaviors in the high-functioning autism spectrum. Autism, 11(5), 437-451.
Libbey, J., Coon, H., Kirkman, N., Miller, J., Lainhart, J., McMahon, W., & Fujinami, R. (2007). Are there altered antibody responses to measles, mumps, or rubella viruses in autism? J Neurovirol, 13(3), 252-259.
Libbey, J., Coon, H., Kirkman, N., Sweeten, T., Miller, J., Stevenson, E., Lainhart, J., McMahon, W., & Fujinami, R. (2007). Are there enhanced MBP Autoantibodies in autism? J Autism Dev Disord.
Spear, L., Cook, A., McMahon, W., & Clark, E. (2007). Face processing in children in autism: effects of stimulus contents and type. Autism, 11(3), 265-277.
Lee, J., Bigler, E., Alexander, A., Lazar, M., DuBray, M., Chung, M., Johnson, M., Morgan, J., Miller, J., McMahon, W., Lu, J., Jeong, E., & Lainhart, J. (2007). Diffusion tensor imagining of white matter in the superior temporal gyrus and temporal stem in autism. Neurosci Lett., 424(2), 127-132.

William M. McMahon, M.D. is a psychiatrist with fellowship training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Medical Genetics. His current research focuses on the genetics of autism, Tourette’s Disorder and suicide. In the 1980’s, he was a member of the team that found all known individuals with autism in the state of Utah. He is now studying the quality of life of those individuals in adulthood.
Dr. McMahon mentors residents and graduate students in defining the phenotypic assessments relevant to genetic studies of autism, Tourette’s Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, suicide and nicotine addiction. He participates in studies of the epidemiology of autism and related developmental disabilities.