ShreenathVasantDoctorMDD.D.S., Ph.D.

Summary

• Dr. Shreenath Doctor is a neuropsychiatrist in Bellaire, TX who is affiliated with Houston Methodist Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed his residency training at Baylor College of Medicine in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry and served his final year as the chief resident in Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in neuropharmacology and neurotoxicology and has been in private practice 25 years.
  
  His clinical interests include the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric syndromes in post infectious autoimmune encephalitis (PANS); role of environmental exposures in development of autoimmune encephalitis and PANS/PANDAS and the neuropsychiatric and neuroinflammatory effects associated with exposure to water damaged building structures. clinical neurotoxicology and complex medication management. Author of chapters entitled Poisons and Toxins in the in the current and previous editions of Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences as well. Serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Neurospsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  
  Current research at Methodist Hospital is in collaboration with Departments of Neurology, Otorhinolaryngology and Infectious Diseases. His current clinical research involves development of a protocol for treatment of the neuropsychiatric and neurological symptoms of post-streptococcal autoimmune encephalitis. Current multidisciplinary research at Methodist Hospital includes treatment of Post-infectious Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) in teens and adults with medications, antibiotics, extra-capsular adenotonsillectomy and subsequent intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy.