![](https://sites.uab.edu/cbra/files/2024/01/sarah-okelly-2-b31a08c12c65c531.jpg)
Sarah O’Kelley, Ph.D.
Director, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Clinic at UAB Civitan-Sparks Clinics | Associate Professor, UAB Department of Psychology
![](https://sites.uab.edu/cbra/files/2024/01/screen-shot-2022-08-25-at-10-21-26-am-38c020022f419b2c.png)
Smitha Karavallil Achuthan, Ph.D.
Dr. Smitha K. A. received her PhD from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Her PhD dissertation was “Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques for the differentiation and characterization of Brain tumors with histopathology Correlation”. Smitha was awarded DBT Research Associateship (5 year) from the Department of Biotechnology, at the Government of India. The DBT Research Associateship focused on resting state and task based functional MRI in the temporal lobe of epilepsy patients. Her research interests are conventional MRI, Proton MR Spectroscopy, resting state fMRI, task-based fMRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Dr. Smitha K. A. previously worked as the neuroimaging post-doc on the BrainREAD Project, and is now an external collaborator of the lab.