2022 TAMF Symposium Videos

Recognizing, Understanding, and Treating Immune-Mediated Neuropsychiatric Disorders


Review our 2022 program guide for the schedule of presentations delivered at the symposium… Click here to open the 2022 Symposium Program Guide


HEALTHCARE EQUITY AND OTHER SOURCES OF BIAS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

The Alex Manfull Fund is keenly aware of two different but related issues that may inadvertently introduce bias into drawing conclusions from both research and the observations made in one’s practice. We would like to make all viewers aware of these issues as they relate to immune-mediated neuropsychiatric disorders… Read More

Presentation Videos

Welcome and Introduction by Susan Newman Manfull, PhD, TAMF Executive Director and Co-Founder


M. Elizabeth Latimer, MD – “Video Case Reports of Clinical Presentation and Response to Treatment of PANS”


Melissa McCormack, MD, PhD | Sheilah Gauch, LICSW, MEd | Peggy Chapman, PNMHS – “Evaluating Treatment Resistant Mental Illness Through the Lens of Immune-Mediated Neuropsychiatric Disorders in a School-Based Setting”


Janet L. Cunningham, MD, PhD – “The Emerging Field of Adult Clinical Immunopsychiatry: Cases, Early Observations and Questions Left to Answer”


Craig Shimasaki, PhD, MBA – “Can Infections Really Cause Mental Illness?”


Richard Morse, MD – “At the Interface of Brain and Mind: Towards a Synthetic Understanding of PANS”


Brent Harris, MD, PhD – “Title: Studying Neuroimmune Disorders as a Neuropathologist”


Earl Harley, MD – “The Role of Otolaryngology Research in PANDAS/PANS”


Juliette C. Madan, MD, MS & Pawel Kiela, DVM, PhD – “The Gut Brain Axis and Neuroinflammation: The Microbiome in PANS”


Jennifer Frankovich, MD, MS – “Inflammation Clues in PANS”


Dritan Agalliu, PhD – “The role of Th17 cytokines in neurovascular dysfunction and microglial activation in post-Streptococcal basal ganglia encephalitis”


Herb M. Lachman, MD & Peter J. van der Spek, Prof. dr. Ing. – “PANS Candidate Genes Identified by Genome Sequencing”




A post-symposium presentation about healthcare inequity and other sources of bias in medicine by Dr. James Giordano, Pellegrino Center Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry, and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University Medical Center :

HEALTHCARE EQUITY AND OTHER SOURCES OF BIAS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

The Alex Manfull Fund is keenly aware of two different but related issues that may inadvertently introduce bias into drawing conclusions from both research and the observations made in one’s practice. We would like to make all viewers aware of these issues as they relate to immune-mediated neuropsychiatric disorders… Read More