Dr. Carla Mazefsky is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her undergraduate training at The College of William and Mary, followed by a doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, pre-doctoral internship at Brown University, and post-doctoral fellowship at Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. She first joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 as an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Child Development Unit, where she spent half of her time doing autism diagnostic evaluations and half of her time doing research. She had her first grant during that time, focused on psychiatric diagnoses in autistic teenagers. She shifted into Psychiatry in 2009 and received an NICHD Career Development Award. She has been fully funded by and focused on research related to emotion dysregulation in autism ever since.