Prof. Lawrence K. Fung, M.D., Ph.D., is the Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He founded the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, chairs the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, and directs the Neurodiversity Clinic. Trained as a chemical engineer at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell, he led drug metabolism teams in the pharmaceutical industry for a decade before earning his M.D. and completing psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Stanford. His research advances the strengths-based model of neurodiversity across neuroimaging, culturally responsive care, and community-based employment and mental health programs. He edited Neurodiversity: From Phenomenology to Neurobiology and Enhancing Technologies and co-edited the forthcoming textbook Pediatric Psychopharmacology. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.