Iser DeLeon, PhD, BCBA
CE Course & Workshop Instructor
Dr. Iser DeLeon was the director of research development for the Department of Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute for 17 years and is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As of August of 2014, he is an associate professor at the University of Florida.
Dr. DeLeon received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Florida in 1997. Before joining the Kennedy Krieger faculty, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral psychology and pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Department of Pediatrics in 1998. In addition to his appointments at Kennedy Krieger and Johns Hopkins, Dr. DeLeon has an adjunct appointment in psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and is co-director of the Applied Behavior Analysis master’s degree program jointly administered by UMBC and Kennedy Krieger. He is a board-certified behavior analyst, a former associate editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and a member of various professional societies, including the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavior Analysis, and the Maryland Association for Behavior Analysis, for which he served as president in 2001.