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Autoimmune Encephalitis & PANS/PANDAS – A Child Psychiatrist’s Experience

Healing from Lyme Disease Summit 2023

<h6>Thomas Moorcroft, DO</h6>
Everyone. Welcome back to this episode of The Healing from Lyme Disease Summit. I&#8217;m Dr. Tom Moorcroft, and I&#8217;m so excited to be having this interview today and bringing to a near dear friend, Shannon Delaney, who is a medical doctor and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia Medical Center. And as you know, the people that I like to bring in to talk about this are folks that are on the front line of treating patients with tick borne illness, Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, and all these other things, but also specifically Shan and I work together on a lot of we share some patients primarily focusing on patterns and pandas. And what we&#8217;re looking at, infection induced autoimmune encephalitis. I think there&#8217;s a lot of misconception out there, and that&#8217;s why we really wanted to have this conversation today. 
And I think one of the cool parts is when I work with other people and I refer people out, I want to make sure that I&#8217;m sending you or your kiddo over to someone that I would trust to see someone in my own family or myself, but also someone who&#8217;s diving so deep into the literature and has the clinical experience that when we work together, I&#8217;m learning new things. And so with Dr. Delaney and I collaborating on a lot of different folks here, I&#8217;ve learned so many different things that I&#8217;ve been able to share with the physicians at our mentorship program, to share with my patients who may not be able to see her. And it&#8217;s really been revolutionary to think about the way people with autoimmune encephalitis may be presenting and even metabolizing and using medications in a different way than the standard population. And this is such a misunderstood kind of conversation. So, Shannon, thanks for joining me. And I&#8217;m looking forward to a conversation about this.

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Dr. Delaney is a neuropsychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who is co-investigator with Dr. Fallon on studies of adults and children with Lyme disease. She completed her NIH-sponsored research fellowship at Columbia University in 2017. Her clinical research has focused on immune and infectious contributions to psychiatric disease, especially psychosis in children and young adults. She specializes in seeing children and adults with complex neuropsychiatric presentations, especially those with suspected Lyme disease or other tick-borne illnesses, as well as those with Pediatric Acute onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS).

Shannon Delaney, MD

Dr. Tom treats some of the sickest, most sensitive patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease, tick-borne co-infections, mold illness as well as children with infection-induced autoimmune encephalitis (PANS/PANDAS). He focuses on optimizing the body’s self-healing systems in order to achieve optimal health with simple, natural interventions; utilizing more conventional approaches when needed.
He is the creator of the Thrive With Lyme Blueprint which assists those suffering with Lyme and related illnesses tap into the true source of radiant health within them and optimize healing. He also teaches practitioners how to easily and effortlessly excel at treating patients with complex, chronic illnesses in his Lyme Disease Practitioner Certification and Mentorship program.
Dr. Tom’s goal is to empower each of his patients to get in touch with their inner source of health so they can experience optimal health.
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Autoimmune Encephalitis & PANS/PANDAS – A Child Psychiatrist’s Experience

Thomas Moorcroft, DO

Shannon Delaney, MD

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Shannon Delaney, MD