Jennifer Frankovich

Jennifer Frankovich, MD, is a pediatric rheumatologist. Frankovich specializes in systemic autoimmune and post-infectious inflammatory diseases that affect the brain, specifically pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS). She is the PANS Program Director at Stanford Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor in Pediatrics and Pediatric Rheumatology at Stanford School of Medicine. She is on the scientific advisory board of the Open Medicine Foundation, owing to her experience with experience in autoimmunity and post-infectious inflammatory diseases, per the hypothesis that ME/CFS may have an autoimmune component that manifests following infection.