Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD

Clinical Biography

Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD, is a board-certified pediatric neurologist in UT Health Austin Pediatric Neurosciences at Dell Children’s, a clinical partnership between Dell Children's Medical Center and UT Health Austin. She specializes in the care of patients with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism. Additionally, Dr. Brumback is an assistant professor in both the Dell Medical School Department of Neurology and the Dell Medical School Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. Brumback earned both her medical degree and her doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Colorado. She completed a residency in child neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. While pursuing her doctorate, she studied how the electrical activity of the infant brain is fundamentally different than that of the adult brain. Her postdoctoral training focused on understanding developmental brain conditions, such as autism, that lie at the interface of neurology, psychiatry, developmental behavioral pediatrics, and basic neurosciences. At Dell Children’s Medical Center she leads a team of researchers, who work to understand how changes in the brain’s electrical activity cause the symptoms that many people with these disorders experience.

Dr. Brumback is a prolific writer and researcher. At Dell Children’s Medical Center she leads a team of researchers, who work to understand how changes in the brain’s electrical activity cause the symptoms that many people with these disorders experience. She is also a nationally recognized expert in the clinical assessment and management of autism spectrum disorders and related disorders. Her long-term research goal is to develop therapies for the clinical features of neurodevelopmental conditions that cause disability. Working toward this goal, her current work in her laboratory is focused on functionally mapping the thalamocortical network involved in autism.

Dr. Brumback is a pediatric neurologist with UT Health Austin.