Mary Coleman Lecture 2015. The GNC is proud to be able to announce that the FIRST MARY COLEMAN LECTURE ON AUTISM will be given by no other than Mary Coleman herself. Mary Coleman is a pediatric neurologist specializing in neurodevelopmental disorders and currently president of the Foundation for Autism Research, Inc. She was educated at the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University with neurology training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and Children´s Hospital in Washington, DC.