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[O-37-2]Clinical features of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis in a Japanese Nationwide Survey (2nd survey)
Izumi Kawachi1, Etsuji Saji1, Yasunori Sato2, Takahiro Iizuka3, Akio Kimura4, Hiroshi Sakuma5, Hideto Nakajima6, Mariko Oishi7, Akihiro Nakajima1, Takashi Kanda7, Yukitoshi Takahashi8, Osamu Watanabe9, Akiyuki Uzawa10, Satoshi Kuwabara10, Osamu Onodera1 (1.Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan, 2.Department of Biostatistics, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan, 3.Department of Neurology, Kitasato University, Japan, 4.Department of Neurology, Gifu University, Japan, 5.Department of Brain and Neural Science, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan, 6.Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan, 7.Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Japan, 8.Department of Pediatrics, NHO Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka, Japan, 9.Division of Neurology and Stroke, Kagoshima City Hospital, Japan, 10.Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan)
Izumi Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D. is presently an Associate Professor in Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, and Medical Education Center, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan. She is a director of the Japanese Society for Neuroimmunology, and a councilor of the Japanese Society for Neuropathology, the Japanese Society of Neurology and the Japanese Society of Neurological Therapeutics, as well as serving as a Member of the MS/NMOSD Guidelines Committee 2017 and 2023. Dr. Kawachi graduated from Niigata University in 1993 (MD) and earned her PhD from Niigata University in 2002. Dr. Kawachi undertook training in neurology at Brain Research Institute, Niigata University and then engaged in research of innate immunology as a research associate in Prof. Marco Colonna’s lab, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA. Her principal research activity has been in MS/NMO/autoimmune encephalitis.