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Laura A Adang, M.D., PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Neurology

Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3400 Civic Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-1710
Education:
BS (Interdisciplinary Studies: Neurology - Magna cum laude with Honors)
University of Georgia, 2001.
PhD (Microbiology)
University of Virginia, 2007.
MD
University of Virginia, 2009.
MS (Translational Research )
Penn, 2018.
Post-Graduate Training
Pediatric Residency, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2009-2011.
Child Neurology Residency, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2014.
Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Diseases Fellowship, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015-2016.
Lysosomal Disease Network (LDN) research fellowship, CHOP, 2017-2018.
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2014.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Leukodystrophies

Description of Research Expertise

Clinical and biologic outcome measures in the leukodystrophies

Selected Publications

Adang LA, Mowafy S, Herbst ZM, Zhou Z, Schlotawa L, Radhakrishnan K, Bentley B, Pham V, Yu E, Pillai NR, Orchard PJ, De Castro M, Vanderver A, Pasquali M, Gelb MH, Ahrens-Nicklas RC.: Biochemical signatures of disease severity in Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency. JIMD Page: doi:0.1002/jimd.12688, October 2023.

Gavazzi F, Patel V, Charsar B, Glanzman A, Erler J, Sevagamoorthy A, McKenzie E, Kornafel T, Ballance E, Pierce SR, Teng M, Formanowski B, Woidill S, Shults J, Wassmer E, Tonduti D, Magrinelli F, Bernard G, Van Der Knaap M, Wolf N, Adang L, Vanderver A.: Gross Motor Function in Pediatric Onset TUBB4A-Related Leukodystrophy: GMFM-88 Performance and Validation of GMFC-MLD in TUBB4A. J Child Neurol 38(8-9): 498-504, August 2023.

Gavazzi F, Glanzman AM, Woidill S, Formanowski B, Dixit A, Isaacs D, Kornafel T, Ballance E, Pierce SR, Modesti N, Barcelos I, Cusack SV, Jan AK, Flores Z, Sherbini O, Vincent A, D'Aiello R, Lorch SA, DeMauro SB, Jawad A, Vanderver A, Adang L: Exploration of Gross Motor Function in Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome. J Child Neurol 38(8-9): 518-527, August 2023.

Takanohashi A, Alameh MG, Woidill S, Hacker J, Davis B, Helman G, Gavazzi F, Adang L, D'Aiello R, Winters P, Cordova D, Khandaker T, Ni H, Tam Y, Lin P, Weissman D, Shults J, Vanderver A.: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-based vaccines in the Aicardi Goutières Syndrome. Mol Genet Metab 137(4): 320-327, December 2022.

Perez G, Young L, Kravitz R, Sheehan D, Adang L, Van Haren K, Lin JL, Jaffe NN, Kuo D, Ball L, Keller J, Sank J, DiVito D, Naime S.: Pulmonological issues Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care 52(12): 101313, December 2022.

Gavazzi F, Pierce SR, Vithayathil J, Cunningham K, Anderson K, McCann J, Moll A, Muirhead K, Sherbini O, Prange E, Dubbs H, Tochen L, Fraser J, Helbig I, Lewin N, Thakur N, Adang LA.: Psychometric outcome measures in beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN). Mol Genet Metab 137(1-2): 26-32, September-October 2022.

Adang L: Leukodystrophies. Continuum (Minneap Minn) 28(4): 1194-1216, August 2022.

Adang LA, Gavazzi F, D'Aiello R, Isaacs D, Bronner N, Arici ZS, Flores Z, Jan A, Scher C, Sherbini O, Behrens EM, Goldbach-Mansky R, Olson TS, Lambert MP, Sullivan KE, Teachey DT, Witmer C, Vanderver A, Shults J.: Hematologic abnormalities in Aicardi Goutières Syndrome. Mol Genet Metab 136(4): 324-329, August 2022.

Cetin Gedik K, Lamot L, Romano M, Demirkaya E, Piskin D, Torreggiani S, Adang LA, Armangue T, Barchus K, Cordova DR, Crow YJ, Dale RC, Durrant KL, Eleftheriou D, Fazzi EM, Gattorno M, Gavazzi F, Hanson EP, Lee-Kirsch MA, Montealegre Sanchez GA, Neven B, Orcesi S, Ozen S, Poli MC, Schumacher E, Tonduti D, Uss K, Aletaha D, Feldman BM, Vanderver A, Brogan PA, Goldbach-Mansky R.: The 2021 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology/American College of Rheumatology Points to Consider for Diagnosis and Management of Autoinflammatory Type I Interferonopathies: CANDLE/PRAAS, SAVI, and AGS. Arthritis Rheumatol 81(5): 601-613, May 2022.

Cheung A, Argyriou C, Yergeau C, D'Souza Y, Riou É, Lévesque S, Raymond G, Daba M, Rtskhiladze I, Tkemaladze T, Adang L, La Piana R, Bernard G, Braverman N.: Clinical, neuroradiological, and molecular characterization of patients with atypical Zellweger spectrum disorder caused by PEX16 mutations: a case series. Neurogenetics 23(2): 115-127, April 2022.

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