Mary Jane Weiss
Endicott College
Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA is the Dean of Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and Director of the Ph.D. Program in ABA at Endicott College, where she has been for 14 years. She previously served as Director of Research and Training at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University for 16 years. Her research interests center on defining best practice and humane ABA approaches, integrating compassionate care and cultural responsiveness into behavior analytic service delivery, enhancing the ethical conduct of practitioners, training clinicians to be effective at collaboration, and identifying effective instructional strategies for graduate education in behavior analysis. Mary Jane is also a long-standing member of the research team at Melmark. Mary Jane serves on the Scientific Council of the Organization for Autism Research, is Vice President of the board of Association for Science in Autism Treatment, is on the editorial board of Behavior Analysis in Practice, is on the ABA Ethics Hotline, and serves as an advisor to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.