2024 Tournament Sponsors

Celebrating Elizabeth Roof

We are thrilled to honor Elizabeth Roof at this year’s Latham Centers Golf Classic! Elizabeth, a Senior Research Specialist at Vanderbilt University, has done incredible work in the areas of managing behavior, psychiatric features, social skills, and new promising clinical trials within the Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) community. 

Elizabeth Roof, M.A. is a Senior Research Associate at Vanderbilt University Department of Psychology and has been licensed as a Health Service Provider in TN since 1994. She currently directs several research programs with children and adults with Prader-Willi syndrome with Elisabeth Dykens.  They have published many peer-reviewed journal articles about many aspects of PWS across the lifespan. For almost 30 years, Elizabeth has followed over 450 children, teens, and adults with PWS in research studies.  Elizabeth has recruited many families across the country and Canada by providing individualized feedback information to families on issues such as behavioral and classroom intervention, effective parenting, IEPs and educational strategies, psychiatric medication in PWS, and residential placement and professional consultation for professionals and groups.  She has helped manage many clinical trials in PWS and consults with sponsors to select appropriate outcomes and logistics for clinical trials in PWS.   She has presented at many state, national, and international PWS conferences and for FPWR in the US, Australia and Canada.