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Neuroimmune Day 2026 Speakers
Dr. Amanda Piquet
Future Application of CAR T Therapy to Autoimmune Encephalitis
Director and Celine Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology at UC Health Neurosciences Center, Dr. Piquet sub-specializes in autoimmune neurological diseases, multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system. Her main clinical interest includes antibody-mediated disorders of the nervous system such as autoimmune encephalitis and stiff person syndrome (SPS) as well as demyelinating disease including multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). She has expertise in other inflammatory diseases including neurosarcoidosis, vasculitis, and central nervous system complications of rheumatological diseases such as lupus and Sjögren syndrome, among others.
Dr. Isaac Melamed
New Research Data on IVIG and PANS/PANDAS
Founder and Director of IMMUNOe Health and Research, Expert immunologist in neuroinflammatory conditions, Veros Health,
Centennial, CO
With more than thirty-five years of experience as a physician, Dr. Melamed is a respected leader in the fields of immunology and immune-related diseases. He has spent over twenty years researching immune-related conditions, including primary and secondary immune deficiencies, and the link between the immune system and the central nervous system. Dr. Melamed’s mission is to identify diseases early in order to ensure his patients' optimal health.
Dr. Rosario Trifiletti
PANDAS/PANS - an "Alternative Fever Response" Closely Related to Autism
Founder PANS/PANDAS Institute
Expert in Pediatric Neurology and Neurogenetics, Westwood, NJ
For more than two decades, Dr. Trifiletti ("Dr. T") has been deeply involved in PANDAS/PANS. In fact, from 2009-2019 he ran the only practice in the world dedicated exclusively to that condition. Dr. T has superior clinical training, having been the chief of Child Neurology at two major institutions in the NYC metropolitan areas, and has extensive training in Pediatrics, Neurology, Neurogenetics, Metabolic Disease and Mitochondrial Disease, having published in all these areas. In additional to his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSM), Dr. Trifiletti has a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from JHUSM, having been mentored by the Lasker-award winning (and Nobel-nominated) neuropharmacologist Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, and has published over 80 scientific papers.
Dr. Brian Wise
Founder Wise Pschyciatry
Expert in Medical Etiology of Neuropsychiatric Conditions, Denver, CO
Dr. Wise holds a Board Certification in Psychiatry as well as Board Certifications from the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine, American Board of Integrative Medicine and the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is currently finishing up the advanced fellowship from the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. He has a love of medical knowledge and is consistently pursuing certifications and training in a number of specialty areas of mental health and medicine in order to provide the newest and most effective therapies to his patients. He has given talks at professional conferences across the world.
Dr. Robert Groysman
Founder The Long Covid Institute and and author of “The Complete Long Covid Handbook.” Plano, TX
Dr. Robert Groysman didn’t plan to specialize in Long COVID. He was treating chronic pain and PTSD with interventional procedures when he contracted Long COVID.
His symptoms persisted. Traditional medicine had no answers. He could have cycled through specialists, but instead, he did something different: he researched the mechanisms himself.
What he discovered changed everything. Long COVID wasn’t one problem, it was six biological mechanisms creating different combinations in each patient, like a fingerprint.
Dysautonomia. Mitochondrial dysfunction. Endothelial damage and microclots. Gut dysbiosis. MCAS & Excess histamine. Hormonal imbalance.
All interconnected. Often missed by standard testing.
He applied this framework to his own recovery. It worked.
He documented the complete framework in a seven-book series, The Complete Long COVID Handbook, published 2024-2025. Now, at his clinic in Plano, Texas, he offers what he needed when he was sick: answers.
Dr. Dane Fliedner, Emcee
Chief Medical Officer,
Lighthouse Complex Care Clinics
Denver, CO and Wilmington, DE
Dr. Fliedner, MD, MPH, FAAP is an Integrative and Functional Medicine Pediatrician. A Southern California native, Dr. Fliedner earned his Doctorate of Medicine while also earning his Master of Public Health from New York Medical College. He completed his Pediatric Residency Training at University of California, Irvine. He has had a diverse career having worked from Community Clinics in underserved areas in California to working in the emergency room as a faculty member of the Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School/Children’s Hospital of Dallas.
