Parent Advisory Board
Pamela Ferro, RN ASN
Pamela J. Ferro RN ASN, is the Co-founder of Hopewell Associates, and the director of Hopewell’s Autism program for children. She provides biomedical treatments for children, teens, and adults with Autism using biomedical approaches. She is also the founder and President of the Board of Trustees of the Gottschall Center, which will one day provide treatment, vocational opportunities, and housing opportunities for people with Autism.
She attended Bristol Community College in Fall River MA. Pam has spoken on several occasions at the international Defeat Autism Now! conferences, and is widely recognized as being the leading authority on the utilization of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in children and adults with Autism. She was also one of the five original nursing collaborators who developed the DAN Nurses Curriculum, which has since evolved into the DAN Practitioners’ Training.
Pam became close personal and professional friends with the late Elaine Gottschall, researcher, author, and developer of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. Pam worked closely with her and was personally selected by Elaine as she became ill to carry on Elaine’s pioneering dietary work using the SCD to treat people with autism spectrum disorders. Pam’s article “Healing the Gut in Teenagers and Beyond” was recently published in the magazine The Autism File which was originally published in the UK, but now is published in Canada and the US as well.
Pam brings her special passion and knowledge to her treatment of people with Autism not only because of her friendship with her mentor Elaine Gottschall, but even more directly and importantly, because of her beloved son, Isaiah, whose life is affected by Autism.
