Beth Alison Maloney is the national attorney advocate for the recognition and treatment of PANDAS/PANS. She is the author of the groundbreaking Saving Sammy and of Childhood Interrupted, the only resource guide about the disorder. With scores of television appearances, articles, broadcast interviews, and speaking engagements worldwide, her work as a catalyst for change in this area of medicine is inspiring. Ms. Maloney consults regularly as a patient and mental health advocate. Her legal experience includes serving as VP of Legal Affairs for Orion Pictures and representing celebrities and athletes including Johnny Carson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Shaquille O’Neal.  She actively practices law in both California and Maine.  Ms. Maloney is a formidable advocate who has extracted misdiagnosed PANDAS children from locked psych wards.  She has brought a number of key stories to the media, including the exposé about Boston Children’s Hospital and the Mass. Department of Children and Families that was featured in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC News, Fox News, and The Glenn Beck Show.  Ms. Maloney has gained national recognition as a legal expert in “medical kidnappings,” a  term commonly used to describe when children are unfairly removed from their parents custody by the state due to complex medical conditions over which physicians disagree.