Dr. M. Elizabeth Latimer & Laura Matheos PANDAS – A Clinical View and Treatment Options

Dr. Latimer will speak about her clinical experiences in treating PANDAS patients. She will discuss the factors she considers in making a diagnosis, the common presentations of the disease, and which treatments have proven effective for her patients. Co-presenter Laura Matheos will speak about her family's experiences in finding a PANDAS diagnosis for their son, the family's frustrations in fighting a skeptical medical community, and her son's treatment progress. She will also speak about current resources available to families.

 M. Elizabeth Latimer, MD received her medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Her residencies were in pediatrics and neurology with special certification in child neurology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was chief of the Child Neurology Division at Georgetown University Hospital for five years and then worked at Fairfax Hospital before opening her own private practice of neurology in Bethesda. Dr. Latimer specializes in caring for cerebral palsy patients who require spasticity management, in addition to her general neurology and headache practice. She has been cited in the Washingtonian Magazine as an outstanding neurologist.

Laura Matheos has a BA in Communications from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband are raising two young children and advocate for families struggling to find medical support for the treatment of PANDAS.
 

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