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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.
Psychiatric Presentations with a Neuroimmune Basis ECHO
ongoing, with the first cohort starting in January 2025
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.
This effort is led by the Neuroimmune Foundation with funding support from the North Carolina Medical Society
To learn more, view the schedule/agenda, and/or register, visit https://neuroimmune.org/echo/
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.