Casey J. Zampella, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Psychiatry

Contact information
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research, Office 5322
2716 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Education:
B.S. (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
University of Rochester, 2007.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2013.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2017.
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Selected Publications

Lee, R. E., Kim, C. J., Faulk, C. J., Premaratne, D., Yu, Y. Y., Greenberg, R., Lyons, M., Foy, J., Tan, S. X. L., Garcia, A. C., Qi, T., Messerli, M., Zhou, R. J., Barron, C. E., Steinbeck. L. K., Zampella, C. J., Berry, L. N., Kochel, R. P., Wiese, A. D., Parish-Morris, J., Herrington, J. D., & Storch, E. A.: Affective computing in youth psychopathology: Protocol for the Adolescent Communication of Emotions Study. Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry 55, March 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.pmip.2026.100181.

Richardson, A.A., Zampella, C.J., & Bennetto, L.: “Look who’s talking”: Language complexity in autistic and non-autistic youth across different conversation partners. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 56(2): 722-734, February 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10803-024-06576-z. Epub 2024 Oct 16.

Yu, Y. Y., Wyman, A., Faulk, C. J., Fulop, L. J., Greenberg, R. L., Benecke, R. B., Steinbeck, L. K., Foy, J., Kim, C., Emory, G. O., Storch, E. A., Zampella, C. J., Yerys, B. E., Schultz, R. T., Parish-Morris, J. B., Herrington, J. D., & Clements, C. C.: An examination of racial bias in scoring the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) Module 3: An item response theory analysis. Autism Research 19(2): e70155, February 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1002/aur.70155. Epub 2025 Dec 23.

Yu, Y. Y., Wyman, A., Faulk, C. J., Fulop, L. J., Greenberg, R. L., Benecke, R. M., Steinbeck, L. K., Foy, J., Kim, C., Emory, G. O., Fox, E., Storch, E. A., Zampella, C. J., Yerys, B. E., Schultz, R. T., Parish-Morris, J., Herrington, J. D., & Clements, C. C.: The under-identification of autism in females: A review and analysis of sex-based scoring differences observed in Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) Module 3. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders February 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10803-026-07253-z. Epub ahead of print.

Kostick-Quenet, K., Hurley, M. E., Ayaz, S., Herrington, J. D., Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Tunc, B., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Blumenthal-Barby, J. S., & Storch, E. A.: Stakeholder perspectives on humanistic implementation of computer perception in health care: qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health 13: e79182, January 2026 Notes: doi: 10.2196/79182.

Rai, A., Hurley, M. E., Herrington, J. D., Storch, E. A., Zampella, C. J., Parish-Morris, J., Sonig, A., Lazaro-Munoz, G., & Kostick-Quenet, K.: Stakeholder criteria for trust in artificial-intelligence-based computer perception tools in health care: qualitative interview study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 27: :e78757, December 2025 Notes: doi: 10.2196/78757.

Sonig, A., Deeney, C., Hurley, M. E., Storch, E., Herrington, J. D., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Zampella, C. J., Tunc, B., Parish-Morris, J., Blumenthal-Barby, J. S., & Kostick-Quenet, K.: Ethical concerns of using computer perception technologies among pediatric patients. AI and Ethics 5: 3593-3607, August 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s43681-024-00550-2.

Zampella, C.J., Parish-Morris, J., Foy, J., Cola, M., Schultz, R.T., & Herrington, J.D.: “You should smile more”: Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people. Autism 29(5): 1236-1245, May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1177/13623613241301113. Epub 2024 Nov 19.

Sonig, A., Deeney, C., Hurley, M., Storch, E. A., Herrington, J., Lazaro-Munoz, G., Zampella, C. J., Tunc, B., Parish-Morris, J., Blumenthal-Barby, J., & Kostick-Quenet, K.: What patients and caregivers want to know when consenting to the use of digital behavioral markers. NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience 2(1): 19, December 2024 Notes: doi.org/10.1038/s44277-024-00022-9.

Gokmen, M., Sariyanidi, E., Yankowitz, L., Zampella, C. J., Schultz, R. T., & Tunc, B.: Detecting autism from head movements using kinesics. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Page: 350-354, November 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1145/3678957.3685711. Epub 2024 Nov 4.

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