Adele Diamond is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is also founder and director of the Center for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts Medicial School's Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center. Diamond holds a Ph. D. in Developmental Psychology from Harvard University and completed her postdoctoral work in neuroanatomy at Yale University School of Medicine.

Diamond's research focuses on the development and neural bases of higher cognitive function, such as memory and inhibitory control, the development of the integration of intention and action and the impact of the environment in brain development.

Diamond's work with the metabolic disorder PKU led to changes in international public health policies. The author of numerous studies, Diamond was named a distinguished scientific lecturer by the American Psychological Association in 1997 and was named one of the "2000 Outstanding Women of the 20th Century" by the International Biographical Center of Cambridge, U.K.