Dr. Jennifer Frankovich is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology Rheumatology at Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH). Dr. Frankovich completed her training in pediatrics, pediatric rheumatology, and clinical epidemiology at Stanford University and LPCH. Her clinical expertise is in systemic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that co-occur with psychiatric symptoms. She co-founded and directs the Stanford Immune Behavioral Health Program (2012- present) and along with her collaborators has created a longitudinal clinical database and large biorepository of patient and control biospecimens. 

In addition to generating clinical data to better understand PANS and related illnesses, she collaborates with over 15 basic science labs who aim to understand the immunological underpinnings of illness. Dr. Frankovich co-led the development of evaluation and treatment guidelines for post-infectious neuropsychiatric conditions including PANS and autoimmune encephalitis and is currently in the beginning stages of an effort to develop clinical classifications and treatment consensus for immunopsychiatric conditions. Dr. Frankovich’s over-arching career goal and the ultimate mission of her program’s research is to understand the immunological pathways contributing to psychiatric deteriorations in order to innovate effective multidisciplinary treatment regimens that will ultimately improve patient outcomes for children with sudden, severe psychiatric deteriorations caused by infectious and inflammatory processes. 

https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/jennifer-frankovich