Free Webinar with Jennifer Frankovich MD, MS of Stanford University.

Jennifer Frankovich MD MS, clinical professor at Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, discusses the co-occurrence of systemic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases – including the overlap between pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and autism. She outlines the presentation of classic rheumatologic diseases noting the prevalence of mental health symptoms and provides clinical criteria for PANS. Frankovich discusses PANS as a relapsing/remitting condition and explores the clinical management options, citing recent studies on steroid use. She concludes by reemphasizing the association of psychiatric symptoms with autoimmune and rheumatologic diseases and states the importance of post-flare rehabilitation before opening the floor to questions.

See it here: https://www.autism.org/pans-and-autism-2021-updates/?fbclid=IwAR2gI8gfN0jK0KFR3ZOHNBLsPnGSGcqF_xY9xnC3yDD25gQBzKueQYdajEo