Psychiatric Presentations with a Neuroimmune Basis ECHO

A comprehensive educational model designed to equip physicians to evaluate and treat children, youth, and adults with psychiatric symptoms due to an underlying neuroimmune condition (examples: encephalitis, neuropsychiatric lupus, PANS, Sydenham’s Chorea).

One-hour weekly meetings featuring short didactics by subject matter experts from leading university programs followed by case presentations.

We invite you to take advantage of and support our ever-growing network of knowledgeable clinicians. There is no cost for physicians to join.

1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ each week.
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What is Project ECHO®?

Project ECHO® is a collaborative model of medical education and care management that helps clinicians worldwide provide expert-level care to patients. Using video-conferencing to train, advise, and support primary care providers and specialists, Project ECHO® increases access to specialty treatment for a variety of conditions. A JAMA study found that patients with hepatitis C who received care under the model had similar outcomes to those who received care in academic medical centers. Dozens of studies have shown the ECHO® model to be effective.

About Psychiatric Presentations with a Neuroimmune Basis ECHO

Neuroimmune Foundation has partnered with Project ECHO®, an internationally recognized platform with over 1 million learners in 45+ countries focused on over 1000 medical conditions, to offer weekly didactics and case-based learning to physicians worldwide.

Psychiatric Presentations with a Neuroimmune Basis ECHO is a comprehensive educational series for physicians across all disciplines who want to improve their ability to care for people with PANS/PANDAS, autoimmune encephalitis, and related autoimmune and inflammatory conditions that present with neuropsychiatric symptoms. Our goal is to improve care for people with these conditions through didactics from experts in the field, case-based discussions, and sharing knowledge.

Participants earn CME credit while sharing their cases and questions in the sessions and are mentored by experts in the field on a weekly basis for six months, with the option to continue on an ongoing basis. There is no cost to join.

Learning objectives
  • Learn how to accurately diagnose and effectively treat inflammatory brain conditions including PANS.
  • Recognize that neuropsychiatric sequelae can result from infections, autoimmune, and inflammatory conditions.
  • List several immune and inflammatory markers that can be present in patients with inflammatory brain disorders.
  • Report the cognitive and psychiatric effects that can occur post-infection.
  • Describe appropriate treatments for patients with inflammatory brain disorders.

Neuroimmune Echo Curriculum Developers and Leaders

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Russell Dale, MBChB, MRCP, PhD

Professor of Paediatric Neurology and Paediatric Neurology Research, University of Sydney

Jennifer Frankovich, MD

Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University

Golam Khandaker, MBBS, MPhil, PhD, FRCPsych

Professor of Psychiatry and Immunology, University of Bristol

Marion Leboyer, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry & Addictology, University Paris-Est Créteil; Director, Translational Neuropsychiatry Lab; CEO, Fondation FondaMental

Belinda Lennox, DM, FRCPsych

Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Ming Lim, MD, PhD

Professor of Paediatric Neurology, King’s College London; Children’s Neuroscience Centre, Evelina London Children’s Hospital

Mark Pasternack, MD

Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics,  Harvard

Robert Yolken, MD

Professor of Neurovirology in Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Didactics Agenda and Schedule

Each one hour session will feature a 15–20 minute didactic led by an expert in the field, followed by 40–45 minutes of case-based learning. Dr. Jenny Frankovich, Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University, and Dr. Mark Pasternack, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard, will join each session of the series.

Additionally, one of the curriculum developers and leaders listed above will join each session so that there is always a rheumatologist, infectious disease physician, and psychiatrist present, as well as a neurologist for most sessions. Didactic speakers will remain to review cases. Whenever possible, patient cases will be matched according to didactic topic.

All sessions will be hosted virtually via Zoom.

Session topics, guest speakers and dates are subject to change.

Date (all one hour)Didactic TitlePanelists for casesDidactic Speaker
January 14, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 1 Topic: Introduction to ECHO: Overview of Inflammatory Brain Disorders Presenting with Psychiatric SymptomsDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Belinda LennoxDr. Belinda Lennox
January 14, 2025, 4:00 pm PTExpert Consultation Panel See linkExpert Consultation Panel
January 21, 2025, 4:00 pm PTLecture 2 Topic: Overview of Autoimmune Conditions with Co-Morbid Psychiatric Symptoms and Pearls to RecognizeDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Russell DaleDr. Jenny Frankovich
January 28, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 3 Topic: Post-infectious Neuropsychiatric Deteriorations – Part 1: Sydenham ChoreaDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Ming LimDr. Mark Pasternack and Dr. Jenny Frankovich
February 4, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 4 Topic: Post-infectious Neuropsychiatric Deteriorations – Part 2: Post-Viral Deteriorations, Including COVIDDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Robert Yolken, Lael YonkerDr. Lael Yonker
February 11, 2025, 4:00 pm PTExpert Consultation Panel See linkExpert Consultation Panel
February 18, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 5 Topic: Post-infectious Neuropsychiatric Deteriorations – Part 3: PANS/PANDASDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Marion LeboyerDr. Jenny Frankovich
February 25, 2025, 4:00 pm PT Lecture 6 Topic: Overview of Autoimmune Encephalitis – Part 1Drs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Russell DaleDr. Russell Dale
March 4, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 7 Topic: Overview of Autoimmune Encephalitis – Part 2Drs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Golam Khandaker, Sam PleasureDr. Sam Pleasure
March 11, 2025, 4:00 pm PTExpert Consultation Panel See linkExpert Consultation Panel
March 18, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 8 Topic: Overview of Pediatric Autoimmune EncephalitisDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Ming LimDr. Ming Lim
March 25, 2025, 4:00 pm PTLecture 9 Topic: Infectious EncephalitisDrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Russell Dale, Michael WilsonDr. Michael Wilson
April 1, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 10 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Belinda LennoxTBA
April 8, 2025, 4:00 pm PTExpert Consultation Panel See linkExpert Consultation Panel
April 15, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 11 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Marion LeboyerTBA
April 22, 2025, 4:00 pm PTLecture 12 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Russell DaleTBA
April 29, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 13 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Golam KhandakerTBA
May 6, 2025, 4:00 pm PTLecture 14 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, Russell DaleTBA
May 13, 2025, 4:00 pm PTExpert Consultation Panel See linkExpert Consultation Panel
May 20, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 15 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, TBATBA
May 27, 2025, 4:00 pm PTLecture 16 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, TBATBA
June 3, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 17 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, TBATBA
June 10, 2025, 4:00 pm PTExpert Consultation Panel See linkExpert Consultation Panel
June 17, 2025, 10:30 am PTLecture 18 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, TBATBA
June 24, 2025, 4:00 pm PTLecture 19 Topic: TBADrs. Jenny Frankovich, Mark Pasternack, TBATBA

Neuroimmune Echo Consultation Panel

Part of our weekly Neuroimmunopsychiatry ECHO series features an ongoing opportunity for physicians to consult with our multidisciplinary consultation panel face-to-face virtually with leading experts in the field of neuroimmunology and immunopsychiatry including PANS and PANDAS on the second Tuesday of each month. In contrast to the meetings the rest of the month, the consultation panel meetings feature one physician presenting a complex case to the panel. Additional details are available on our Expert Consultation Panel page.

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Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD

Glenn W. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Endowed Chair in Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

David B. Lewis, MD

Chief, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine

Mark Pasternack, MD

Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate; Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard

Jennifer Frankovich, MD

Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University

Christopher Bartley, MD, PhD

Chief of the Translational Immuno­psychiatry Unit, NIMH, NIH*

* Dr. Bartley is presenting in his personal capacity.

Chris Pittenger, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology, Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

Laura Pace, MD, PhD, FACG

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine – Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Niraj C. Patel, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center

Herbert M. Lachman, MD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, Genetics, and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

John Gaitanis, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator, Brown University School of Medicine; Pediatric Neurologist, Hasbro Children’s Hospital

Richard Frye, MD, PhD

Director of Research, Neurologist, Rossignol Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ

Bruno Passebon Soares, MD

Pediatric Neuroradiology Section Chief, Associate Professor of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Sameh Mobarek, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, UNC Health, North Carolina Heart and Vascular

Activity Director

Medical Director

Anna Conkey, BS, CSW

Director and Founder, Neuroimmune Foundation

Jennifer Frankovich, MD

Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University

Didactic Speakers

Full list and details coming soon.

Belinda Lennox, DM, FRCPsych

Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Introduction to ECHO and Overview of Inflammatory Brain Disorders Presenting with Psychiatric Symptoms

January 14, 2025, 10:30 am PT

Jennifer Frankovich, MD

Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University

Overview of Autoimmune Conditions with Co-Morbid Psychiatric Symptoms and Pearls to Recognize

January 21, 2025, 4:00 pm PT

Jennifer Frankovich, MD

Stanford University

Mark Pasternack, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard

Post-infectious Neuro­psychiatric Deteriorations: Part 1 – Sydenham Chorea

January 28, 2025, 10:30 am PT

Lael Yonker, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director, MGH Cystic Fibrosis Center, Massachusetts General for Children

Post-infectious Neuro­psychiatric Deterio­ra­tions – Part 2: Post-Viral Dete­ri­o­ra­tions, Including COVID

February 4, 2025, 10:30 am PT

Jennifer Frankovich, MD

Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Stanford University

Post-infectious Neuro­psychiatric Deteriorations – Part 3: PANS/PANDAS

February 18, 2025, 10:30 am PT

Russell Dale, MBChB, MRCP, PhD

Professor of Paediatric Neurology and Paediatric Neurology Research, University of Sydney

Overview of Autoimmune Encephalitis – Part 1

February 25, 2025, 4:00 pm PT

Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD

Glenn W. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Endowed Chair in Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

Overview of Autoimmune Encephalitis – Part 2

March 4, 2025, 10:30 am PT

Ming Lim, MD, PhD

Professor of Paediatric Neurology, King’s College London; Children’s Neuroscience Centre, Evelina London Children’s Hospital

Pediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis

March 18, 2025, 10:30 am PT

Michael Wilson, MD

Distinguished Professor of Neurology, UCSF, Neurologist, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurology

Autoimmune and Infectious Encephalitis

March 25, 2025, 4:00 pm PT

Registration

Application to join
Psychiatric Presentations with a Neuroimmune Basis ECHO

Physicians wishing to join Neuroimmune ECHO should fill out the application on the registration page. Physicians applying should be committed to attending all sessions listed above for 5.5 months, starting January 14, 2025. Physicians in the United States wishing to join must commit to attending a minimum of 80% of the scheduled sessions and arriving on time to the meetings. Physicians outside of the United States in time zones in which the sessions are inconveniently timed can register to attend either the 10:30 am PT or the 4:00 pm PT sessions with the commitment to watch the recordings of the didactics, only participating live in half of the scheduled meetings. Space is limited and this is a closed cohort. Participants are expected to keep their cameras on except in extenuating circumstances. You may apply to join either the early 2025 or late 2025 session, or both. Those who join the first session will be welcome to participate in the second session as well.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Neuroimmune Foundation and Project ECHO®.

Project ECHO® is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

More info on the Project ECHO®

Please check the videos below and at the top of the page, or visit the Project ECHO® page: echo.unm.edu


Project ECHO: Origin Story


Doctor creates program to expand medical care in rural and underserved areas

AMA Designation Statement

Project ECHO® designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accommodations

Neuroimmune Foundation subscribes to the articles of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Should you or anyone accompanying you require special assistance, please notify us by contacting info@neuroimmune.org or (608)381-0367. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation.

Disclaimer

The opinions and comments of the panelists are based on their personal experiences with their own patients as well as their interpretation of literature. Panelists are not offering medical advice, but rather seek to educate and inform colleagues about the various considerations applicable to the cases discussed. Their goal is to help treating physicians be in a better position to assess and treat patients. Treating physicians must always make the ultimate determination of “next-steps” (evaluation and treatment). Each patient is unique, and such determinations should only be made after comprehensive examinations following direct interaction with families and patients. By attending, you understand and agree to the terms of this disclaimer.

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