Whitney Guthrie, PhD

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

Contact information
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research
2716 South Street, Office 5241
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Education:
BA (Psychology )
Pepperdine University, 2006.
MS (Clinical Psychology)
Florida State University, 2012.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Florida State University, 2016.
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Selected Publications

Mandal, A.S., Shinohara, R.T., Jung, B., Gardner, M., Akouri, H.E., Yerys, B.E., Guthrie, W., Janke, K.,M., Herrington, J.D., Hocking, M.C., Ball, G., Payne, J.M., North, K.N., Muhlert, N., Garg, S., Seidlitz, J., Fisher, M.J., & Alexander-Bloch, A.: NF1-specific growth charts for head circumference over the first three years of life. medRxiv preprint June 2025 Notes: This manuscript has been published as a preprint and also submitted to a peer reviewed journal. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.23.25328558.

Wang, L.A., Tunc, B., Sariyanidi, E., Iverson, J.M., Zampella, C.J., Guthrie, W., Cubit, L.S., Drye, M., Fecher, M., Craig, S., Megginson, G., Yankowitz, L.D., Schultz, R.T.: Early Gait Features Predict Later Autism Diagnosis. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. May 2025.

Maye, M., Johnson-Hooper, T., Ma, L., Song, X., Guthrie, W., Redmond-Payne, K., Braciszewski, J., & Yeh, H.H.: Birth Cohort Assessment of Access, Equity, and Accuracy of Universal Autism Screening within a Large, Diverse, Health System Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. May 2025.

Iglio, L., Zampella, C.J., Craig, S., Abdullah, R., Acheampong, K.K.A., Benecke, R.M., Flanagan, A.Y., Cubit, L.S., Schultz, R.T., Guthrie, W., & Ramsey, K.L.: Does Early Intervention Service Acquisition Vary across Diagnostic Groups When Accounting for Sociodemographic Factors? Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. May 2025.

Acheampong, K.K.A., Zampella, C.J., Abdullah, R., Craig, S., Iglio, L., Wallis, K.E., & Guthrie, W.: Intersectionality of Race/Ethnicity and Sex in Autism: Prevalence, Age of Diagnosis, and Diagnostic Patterns. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. May 2025.

Maye, M., Ma, L., Yeh, H., Braciszewski, J., Redmond-Payne, K., Zhang, S., Hu, Y., Song, X., Guthrie, W., & Johnson-Hooper, T.: Assessment of access, equity, and accuracy of universal autism screening within a large, diverse, health system across birth cohorts. Poster presented at the HCSRN 2025 Annual Conference Optimizing Collaborations to Advance Health In a Dynamic Research Landscape April 2025.

Chen, Y., Chen, Q., Benecke, R., Schultz, R.T., Fiks, A., Griffin, P., & Guthrie, W.: Enhancing Autism Screening with Electronic Health Records Data Using Machine Learning. Under Review 2025.

Yankowitz, L., Pargi, M.K., Dejardin, E., Zampella, C.J., Guthrie, W., Pandey, J., Bartley Jr, G.K., Chen, D., McDonald, D.Q., Manakiwala, A. Khanna, M., Keen, K., Buboltz, G., Yang, A., Herrington, J., Sariyanidi, E., Schultz, R.T., and Tunc, B.: AI-based Measurement of Social Gaze During Naturalistic Conversations: A Potential Autism Biomarker. PsyArtXiv preprint December 2024 Notes: This manuscript has been published as a preprint and also submitted to a peer reviewed journal. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rjvmx.

Zampella, C.J., Pargi, M.K., Sariyanidi, E., M. Drye, M., Megginson, G., Craig, S., Acheampong, J., Iglio, L., Abdullah, R., Fecher, M., Benecke, R.M., Ramsey, K.L., Flanagan, A.Y., Cubit, L.S., Schultz, R.T., Tunc, B., & Guthrie, W. : Automated Quality Control Procedures to Improve Accuracy of Computer Vision Tools for Early Autism Screening. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting in Melbourne, Australia May 2024.

Wallis, K.E. & Guthrie, W.: Screening for Autism: A Review of the Current State, Ongoing Challenges, and Novel Approaches on the Horizon. Pediatric Clinics of North America 71(2): 127-155, 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2023.12.003.

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