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Dr. Santoro is a pediatric neurologist with special training in inflammatory and demyelinating disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system.
Clinical Interests
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis
Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders
MOG Antibody Syndrome
Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Optic Neuritis
Transverse Myelitis
Neurologic Disorders Associated With Down Syndrome
Bickerstaff's Brainstem Encephalitis and GQ1b Antibody Mediated Disorders
Autoimmune Encephalitis
Hashimoto's Encephalitis (Steroid Responsive Encephalitis with Associated Autoimmune Thyroiditis)
Education
Tulane University School of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine: Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine: Pediatrics & Child Neurology
Harvard Medical School: Pediatric MS and Demyelinating Disorders
Accomplishments
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology
American Medical Association
American Academy of Neurology
Child Neurology Society
Alpha Omega Alpha (Stanford University, 2018)
Young Alumni Leadership Award (Tulane University, 2018)
Enhanced Leadership Scholarship (AAN, 2018)
Santoro JD, Filippakis A, Chitnis T. Ketamine Use in Refractory Status Epilepticus Associated with anti-NMDA Receptor Antibody Encephalitis. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2019 Jun 23;12:100326
Santoro JD, Chitnis T. Diagnostic Considerations in Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis and the Interface with anti-MOG Antibody. Neuropediatrics. 2019 Jul 24 [Epub ahead of print]
Santoro JD, Whitgob EE, Huffman LC. Cluster randomized controlled trial of disability education module during pediatrics clerkship. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2019 May 21:9922819850475. [Epub ahead of print]
Santoro JD. Long-term sequelae of pediatric Bickerstaff’s brainstem encephalitis includes autonomic dysfunction and sleep dysregulation. J Child Neurol. 2019 Jan 3:883073818820488 [Epub ahead of print]
Messacar K, Sillau S, Hopkins S, Otten C, Wilson-Murphy M, Wong B, Santoro JD, Treister A, Tokhie H, Torres A, Zabrocki L, Glanternik J, Hurst A, Martin J, Schreiner T, Makhani N, DeBiasi R, Kruer M, Tremoulet A, Van Haren K, Desai J, Benson L, Gorman M, Abzug MJ, Tyler KL, Dominguez SR. Safety, tolerability, and efficacy of fluoxetine as an antiviral for acute flaccid myelitis. Neurology. 2019 Apr 30;92(18):e2118-e2126.
Santoro JD, Hemond CC. Lower CSF HHV6 viral load in children may predict likelihood of seizure in post-transplant acute limbic encephalitis. Transpl Infect Dis. 2019 Feb;21(1):e13003, Epub 2019 Oct 15
Santoro JD, Lee S, Mlynash M, Nguyen T, Lazzareschi DV, Kraler L, Mayne EW, Steinberg GK. Subclinical hypertension predicts symptomatic moymoya disease in patients with trisomy 21. Pediatrics. 2018 Oct; 142(3), Pii:e20180840
Santoro JD, Sandoval A, Ruzhnikov M, Brimble E, Chadwick W, Wusthoff CJ. Use of EMR templates reduces medical errors in patients with infantile spasms. Health Inf Manag. 2018 Aug 19:1833358318794501.
Santoro JD, Forkert ND, Yang QZ, Pavitt S, MacEachern SJ, Mosely M, Yeom KW. Brain diffusion abnormalities in children with tension and migraine type headaches. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2018 May; 39(5):935-941
Santoro JD, Lazzareschi DV, Campen CJ, Van Haren K. Bickerstaff’s brainstem encephalitis in the pediatric population: neurodiagnostic and therapeutic challenges. J Neurol. 2018 Jan; 265(1):141-150
Pediatric Demyelinating Disorders
MOG Antibody Spectrum Disorders
Neurologic Disorders Associated With Down Syndrome