Living with a Diagnosis of TM Including AFM, NMO, or ADEM as an Adolescent and Young Adult
June 15, 2015
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About Our Guest Speakers
Dr. Lana Harder
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Dallas, TX
Dr. Lana Harder completed her doctoral training at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Neuropsychology at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Since 2008, Dr. Harder has served as a Clinical Neuropsychologist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas (CMCD) and as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology and specializes in the neuropsychological evaluation of pediatric patients, from infancy to young adults, with disorders of the central nervous system. Dr. Harder serves as the neuropsychologist for the CMCD Pediatric Demyelinating Diseases Clinic. Research interests include cognitive and psychosocial outcomes for pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS), transverse myelitis (TM), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), and neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
Audrey Ayres, RN, BSN, MSCN, CRND
Registered Nurse at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Audrey Ayres, RN completed the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. She began her career in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at UTMB in Galveston. Later she moved to Miami, FL to work at Jackson Memorial Hospital in the Transplant and Cardiothoracic Surgical ICU. She then returned to Texas and worked at Baylor University Medical Center in the Cardiovascular ICU and was the nursing educator for the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit and Coronary Care Unit.
Audrey joined the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in February of 2012, taking the role of primary nurse for the Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Along with her role as clinical nurse for adult and pediatric patients, she is also the coordinator of the Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Program.
Audrey completed the Linda Morgante Nurse Leadership in Multiple Sclerosis Program and was certified as a Multiple Sclerosis Certified Nurse in 2013. In partnership with the Consortium of MS Centers, Audrey has led a board of Neuroimmunology specialists to create the certification examination in rare neurologic disorders (CRND). She is dedicated to the care of people with rare neuroimmune disorders and their families.
