Dr. Kyvelidou graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center with her doctorate from the Medical Sciences Interdepartmental Area (MSIA). She has completed two post-doctoral fellowships at Northeastern University in Boston and in the Biomechanics Department at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where she was also an assistant professor. Dr. Kyvelidou‘s research focuses on neuro-developmental disabilities during infancy. Her most recently funded projects aim to discover motor and perceptual signatures of autism in the first year of life. She recently received a $150,000 grant to investigate early signs of autism in infants born prematurely and with low birth weight.