David Mandell: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- psychiatrist and director of the Center for Mental Health at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Quoted on
- Health inequalities, Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“Although there are several well-done studies looking at the differences in risk of death between autistic people and the general population, calculating life expectancy is a much more powerful and intuitive way to show these differences, and the authors are to be applauded for providing these compelling statistics, which are carefully and appropriately calculated.”
What David Mandell has said
“calculating life expectancy is a much more powerful and intuitive way to show these differences than earlier risk-of-death comparisons, and said the estimates were carefully and appropriately calculated”
Psychiatrist and director of the Center for Mental Health at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine · Health inequalities · 21 Sept 2026 · Autistic Medicaid Enrollees Lived to About 65 Years in a 21-Year Analysis of Federal Death Records ↗
“"This group was put together very quickly. One of the first items of business should be to ask who is represented and who is missing, and how can we increase and enhance our ranks so that all important perspectives are represented?"”
professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and a founding member of the committee · Learning disability & autism · 27 Aug 2026 · Independent autism committee that challenges RFK Jr’s overhaul draws criticism ↗
Where David Mandell has been quoted
- Autism Cuts 13.8 Years Off Life Expectancy—and the Causes Are Depressingly Preventablegizmodo.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Autistic Medicaid Enrollees Lived to About 65 Years in a 21-Year Analysis of Federal Death Recordsmedicaldaily.com · 21 Sept 2026
- Independent autism committee that challenges RFK Jr’s overhaul draws criticismtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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