Monthly Webinars
Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) in Children with Dr. Gisela Sandoval
- Price: FREE
Speaker
Gisela Maria Sandoval
Speaker Bio
Dr. Gisela Sandoval is a physician scientist with dual board certification in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, who specializes in medical-psychiatric illness caring for individuals that suffer from medical conditions at the interface of medicine and psychiatry, which often requires complex chronic care. She heads the pediatric functional neurological disorders (FND) clinic at Lucille Packard Children’s hospital and is an attending in child and adolescent psychiatrist at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Sandoval graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology where she performed research in brain physiology and evolution. She earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School where she also completed a Ph.D. specializing in molecular neurobiology and genetics. Dr. Sandoval completed her residency in general psychiatry at the University of Chicago and then went on to complete a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency of Columbia and Cornell Universities.
- Overview of the history of FND
- Clinical criteria to make FND diagnosis
- Risk factors and triggers to developing FND
- Spread of FND during the COVID 19 pandemic
- Treatment of FND
Time: 10-11am PT, 1-2pm ET
Date & Time
Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 10:00 AM
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Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 11:00 AM
Location
Zoom Online Webinar
Past Webinars Include:
- Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS): risk for pain, POTS, and more? with Dr. Blake Windsor
- How to get the best pain help from your child’s doctor with Dr. Jody Thomas
- Understanding your teen's brain: Differences in brain development (neurodiversity) and impact on anxiety, depression, school, peer relationships, and family interactions with Dr. Susan Donner
- Stomachaches: Brain, Gut, Autonomic Nervous System & Pain with Dr. Beate Beinvogl
- More than just a Headache - Understanding Migraine in Children and Adolescents with Dr. Hannah Shapiro
- Adolescent Depression with Sylvanna M. Vargas, PhD, MPH
- Parenting the Teen and Young Adult with Chronic Pain with Samantha Levy, PhD
- Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) in Children with Dr. Gisela Sandoval
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for Treating Youth with Dr. Sara Ptasnik
- Supporting Your Child with OCD and Anxiety with John Piacentini, PhD