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About our Guest Speakers
Sarah Hopkins, MD, MSPH
Dr. Sarah Hopkins graduated from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine in 2004 and completed residency in pediatrics and neurology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2009, where she remained on faculty for several years. Dr. Hopkins came to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2014 and became Section Head of MS and Neuroinflammatory Disorders in 2017. Dr. Hopkins has an interest in inflammatory disorders of the spinal cord and directs the multi-disciplinary Myelitis Clinic at CHOP. She has an interest in acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and serves as a neurology consultant for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for activities related to AFM Surveillance. She is the site PI for the NIH AFM Natural History Study and the International Pediatric Opsoclonus Myoclonus Ataxia Syndrome Registry. Dr. Hopkins serves as Co-Director of the CHOP/Penn Age Span MS and Neuroinflammatory Disorders Fellowship with Dr. Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy at Penn.
Sarah Stoney, MSW, LSW
Sarah Stoney, MSW, LSW, graduated from West Chester University with a Master of Social Work in 2014, after she received her bachelor’s degree in the same discipline in 2006. She joined The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Division of Neurology in 2014. Previously, she worked in the emergency department of Penn Medicine’s Chester County Hospital and as a family counselor at The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth. At CHOP, she assists patients and their families navigate the complex medical system, advocates with families in their schools and throughout the community, and provides ongoing support to patients and families in multiple subspecialty clinics.
