Theresa Wrangham
Conference Moderator
Theresa Wrangham has been the National Vaccine Information Center's (NVIC) Executive Director since 2010. Theresa also served as a consumer reviewer for systematic reviews and their protocols that are undertaken by the Cochrane Collaboration.
She became a parent advocate as a result of her daughter Deanna’s life-threatening asthma, as well as her daughter Rachel’s diagnosis of an Autism Spectrum Disorder. In 2001 Theresa co-founded the Autism Society of Boulder County (ASBC) in Colorado and served five terms as its president and seven years on their board. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Autism Society of Colorado and Board of Directors SafeMinds. Theresa also serves on the Advisory Board for the US Autism Association and has served as their conference moderator for over 10 years. She has also worked in her community as a former member of the Boulder Valley School District Special Education Advisory Committee and Boulder Valley School District Design Advisory Committee for the 18-21 Education Facility.
In an effort to raise awareness of biomedical underpinnings of autism and all treatments available, Theresa co-authored the publishing of Colorado’s first autism specific resource guide and coordinated an annual conference and monthly lectures, as well as spearheaded Colorado’s consensus statement supporting the Combating Autism Act. Additionally, in 2005 she worked with her local disability services agency, Imagine!, to establish a parent-directed treatment program for individuals with autism who are ineligible for state DDS services. Theresa was also invited to collaborate with Google to create Project Spectrum, a program designed to assist the autism community to identify possible career paths and to give educators classroom tools, and assist parents in obtaining special education services for their children.
In 2006, the Boulder County Business Report recognized Theresa as a Health Care Hero and in 2012 she received the Chairman's Award from the US Autism & Asperger's Association.
Theresa wrote and regularly published the ASBC and SafeMinds eNewsletters, and has had articles published in Mothering Magazine, The Autism File, Age of Autism and Pathways and currently writes articles for NVIC's eNewsletter. She has been featured in local, national and international television, radio and print news reports.
