Dr Evelyn C. Law

I am a clinician scientist specialising in developmental and behavioural paediatrics. I graduated from Northwestern University in 2002 with a degree in Biological Sciences (cum laude with Honors) and a minor in Psychology. After my graduation, I worked in a developmental biology lab (PI: Marco Conti, PhD) at Stanford University and in a Developmental Genomics lab in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health (NIH; PI: Chan Wai Yee, PhD). I attended Loma Linda School of Medicine and was fortunate to be accepted into the Boston Combined Joint Pediatric Residency in 2007, where I rotated in Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Boston Medical Center (BMC). I was a Teaching Fellow of the Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine from 2007-2010. For my post-doctorate and post-residency fellowship, I stayed in Boston Children’s Hospital for another 3 years (2010-2013) and trained in the Developmental Medicine Center. I am thankful to be part of the BCH Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience with Margaret Sheridan, PhD.

My current research interests focus on the influences of family and child factors, including socioeconomic status (SES), parental psychopathology, and health, on the executive function outcomes of children, as well as the life course of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from preschool to adolescence.

As a team, we strive to understand children with a wide range of developmental differences and to differentiate their individual needs early in life.