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Sarah E. Hopkins, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Co-Director, Penn/CHOP Agespan MS/Neuroinflammatory Disorders Fellowship
Section Head, Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroinflammatory Disorders, Division of Neurology Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Neurology

Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Neurology
Colket Building, 3501 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-1719
Fax: 215-590-1771
Education:
B.S. (Biology, minor in Secondary Education)
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, 1996.
M.S.P.H. (Epidemiology)
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1997.
M.D.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Little Rock, AR, 2004.
Post-Graduate Training
Residency, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, 2004-2006.
Residency, Child Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Neurology and University of Cincinnati Department of Neurology, Cincinnati, OH, 2006-2009.
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology - initial 2010, re-certified 2020, 2010.
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Selected Publications

Shakin S, Altman M, Hart J, Hopkins S, Lazerow P, Caceres JA: Wall-Eyed Bilateral Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia as Part of the Clinical Presentation of Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis, Successfully Treated With Therapeutic Plasma Exchange. Pediatr Neurol 158: 124-127, Sept 2024.

Diorio C, Hernandez-Miyares L, Espinoza DA, Banwell B, Bar-Or A, DiNofia A, Barz Leahy A, Martinez Z, Myers RM, Hopkins S, Rheingold SR, Teachey DT, Viaene A, Wray L, Maude SL, Grupp SA, McGuire J.: Quadriparesis and paraparesis following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CART) therapy in children and adolescents. Blood June 2024 Notes: Online ahead of print.

Sarah Frankl, Angela Viaene, Arastoo Vossough, Amy Waldman, Sarah Hopkins, Brenda Banwell: Solitary Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesions in Children: Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features, Pathologic Characteristics, and Outcomes. Pediatr Neurol 141: 141-150, May 2024.

Kornbluh A, Hopkins S: Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology 2024.

Caceres JA, Saucier L, Murphy OC, Gordon-Lipkin EM, Santoro JD, Van Haren K, Pardo CA, Hopkins S: Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Abnormalities in Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Pediatric Neurology 149: 58-62, December 2023.

Óskarsdóttir S, Boot E, Crowley TB, Loo JCY, Arganbright JM, Armando M, Baylis AL, Breetvelt EJ, Castelein RM, Chadehumbe M, Cielo CM, de Reuver S, Eliez S, Fiksinski AM, Forbes BJ, Gallagher E, Hopkins SE, Jackson OA, Levitz-Katz L, Klingberg G, Lambert MP, Marino B, Mascarenhas MR, Moldenhauer J, Moss EM, Nowakowska BA, Orchanian-Cheff A, Putotto C, Repetto GM, Schindewolf E, Schneider M, Solot CB, Sullivan KE, Swillen A, Unolt M, Van Batavia JP, Vingerhoets C, Vorstman J, Bassett AS, McDonald-McGinn DM.: Updated clinical practice recommendations for managing children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Genet Med 25(3), March 2023.

Hayes LH, Hopkins SE, Liu S, Pardo CA, Garcia-Dominguez MA, Oleszek J, Yea C, Ciftci-Kavaklioglu B, Yeh EA, Dean J, Sadowsky CL, Desai J, Wiegand S, Farias-Moeller R, Nash K, Thakur KT, Vargas WS, Hong-Routson SJ, Yeshokumar A, Zhou MS, Makhani N, Wilson-Murphy M, Bove R, Zhang B, Benson LA.: Challenges in the Clinical Recognition of Acute Flaccid Myelitis and its Implications. J Pediatr 253: 55-62, February 2023.

Micky K. Bacchus, BS; David S. Anderson, MD; Esther R. Berko, MD, PhD; Lisa J. States, MD; Rochelle Bagatell, MD; Sarah E. Hopkins, MD, MSPH; Vandana Batra, MD: Neuroblastic tumor recurrence associated with opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia syndrome relapse a decade after initial resection and treatment. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2023.

Lauren M. Kerr, BA1, Morgan E. Ryan, MS2, Ming Lim, MD, PhD3, Sarah Hearn, MSc4, Andrea Klein, MD5, Kumaran Deiva, MD, PhD6, Sarah E. Hopkins, MD, MSPH7,8, Micky K. Bacchus, BS7, Elizabeth A. Sokol, MD9, Angela J. Waanders, MD9, Wendy G. Mitchell, MD10, Yasmin Khakoo, MD11,12, Timothy E. Lotze, MD13, Bo Zhang, PhD1,2, Mark P. Gorman, MD 1: An international pediatric-onset opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia syndrome registry and clinical research network: Development, progress, and vision. Pediatric Neurology 2023 Notes: Accepted.

Hayes LH, Hopkins SE, Liu S, et al: Challenges in the clinical recognition of acute flaccid myelitis and its implications. Journal of Pediatrics September 2022.

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