Wayne Fisher, PhD, serves as the executive director of the Marcus Behavior Center at the Marcus Institute, an affiliate of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is an associate professor of behavioral biology in the department of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Prior to June of 1999, Fisher was the executive director of the Neurobehavioral Inpatient and Outpatient Programs and the chief psychologist for the Psychology Training Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md. Fisher has co-authored over 95 research articles. He has been awarded an individual research project grant by the National Institute of Child and Human Development to examine direct and interactive effects of choice variables on the functions of destructive and alternative behavior. He has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and is currently on the editorial boards for this journal and Behavioral Interventions. He also serves on the advisory board for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies and the Maryland Autism Project. He is the vice president of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and president of the Maryland Association for Behavior Analysis.
Fisher received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kennedy Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1987.