Michael L Sweeney, MD

Academic Title

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Biography/ Philosophy of Care

Recognition

Publications:

Sweeney, M., Rubin, J., & Hopkins, S. E. (2014). Neurogenic pulmonary edema in pediatric multiple sclerosis: patient report and summary of cases. Pediatric neurology, 51(3), 426-429.

Sweeney, M. L., Kukreja, M., Horn, P. S., & Standridge, S. M. (2015). Diagnoses in Pediatric Patients With Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Lesions Suspicious for Demyelination. Journal of child neurology, 30(12), 1651-1657.

Sweeney, M., Sweney, M., Soldán, M. M. P., & Clardy, S. L. (2016). Antineuronal Nuclear Autoantibody Type 1/Anti-Hu–Associated Opsoclonus Myoclonus and Epilepsia Partialis Continua: Case Report and Literature Review. Pediatric Neurology, 65, 86-89.

Sweeney, M., Galli, J., McNally, S., Tebo, A., Haven, T., Thulin, P., & Clardy, S. L. (2017). Delayed LGI1 seropositivity in voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC)-complex antibody limbic encephalitis. BMJ Case Reports, 2017, bcr2016218893.

Hanak, Tyler, Michael Sweeney, Viktoria Kaplan, Adi Gunlapalli, Andrew McKeon, Stacey Clardy. “CVID-associated granulomatous disease with cervical dystonia mimicking neurosarcoidosis.” Neurology (2017, in revision).

Clinical Interests/Research

Clinical and Research Interests:

Areas of clinical focus include pediatric multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, neurosarcoidosis, and autoimmune encephalitis. Research interests include neuropsychiatric outcomes in children and adults with immune-mediated neurologic diseases and identification of immune system deficiencies in children with new onset neuropsychiatric disease.