Michael Chez MD is a board certified pediatric neurologist and epileptologist who is now director of pediatric neurology at Sutter Neuroscience Institute and Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California and a voluntary faculty member in the Department of Neurology at the University of California Davis Medical Center. Dr. Chez has spent over 16 years practicing pediatric neurology with a special interest in clinical aspects of autism and has published numerous articles on the subject and has participated in many advisory panels on autism.