Kyle Blackburn, M.D. Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Neurology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Joined UT Southwestern: 2020 Clinical Interests: Dr. Blackburn sees patients in the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Clinic in the Aston Ambulatory Care Center. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of rare autoimmune neurological disorders, including autoimmune encephalitis, stiff person syndrome, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, and neurosarcoidosis. Research: His research focuses on developing new treatments and identifying new markers of disease activity in autoimmune neurological disorders to optimize management for these rare disorders. Education Activities: He is dedicated to resident fellow and serves as Program Director for the Neuroimmunology Fellowship, and Associate Program Director for the Adult Neurology Residency. Education Medical School University of Kentucky College of Medicine (2014) Residency University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (2018), Neurology Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center (2020), Autoimmune Neurology Research Interest Autoantibodies in Neurological Disorders Autoimmune Encephalitis Clinical Trials in Rare Disorders Neuromyelitis Optica Neurosarcoidosis Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes Stiff Person Syndrome Publications Cladribine tablets after treatment with natalizumab (CLADRINA) – rationale and design Sguigna PV, Hussain RZ, Okai A, Blackburn KM, Tardo L, Madinawala M, Korich J, Lebson LA, Kaplan J, Salter A, Manouchehri N, Stuve O Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders 2024 Jan 17 VH2+ Antigen-Experienced B Cells in the Cerebrospinal Fluid Are Expanded and Enriched in Pediatric Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Monson N, Smith C, Greenberg H, Plumb P, Guzman A, Tse K, Chen D, Zhang W, Morgan M, Speed H, Powell C, Batra S, Cowell L, Christley S, Vernino S, Blackburn K, Greenberg B Journal of Immunology 2023 Nov 211 1332-1339 Hero or Antagonist: A Case Series on the Tolerability of Memantine as Salvage Therapy for Catatonia from Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Maneta EK, Wang J, Abu-Hamad SJ, Jennings M, Blackburn K, Robinson DM Harvard review of psychiatry 2023 Nov 31 281-286 Autoimmune Encephalitis Misdiagnosis in Adults Flanagan EP, Geschwind MD, Lopez-Chiriboga AS, Blackburn KM, Turaga S, Binks S, Zitser J, Gelfand JM, Day GS, Dunham SR, Rodenbeck SJ, Clardy SL, Solomon AJ, Pittock SJ, McKeon A, Dubey D, Zekeridou A, Toledano M, Turner LE, Vernino S, Irani SR JAMA neurology 2023 Jan 80 30-39 A narrative review of neuro-ophthalmologic disease in African Americans and Hispanics with multiple sclerosis Tardo L, Salter A, Truong-Le M, Horton L, Blackburn KM, Sguigna PV Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease 2023 Jan 14 Disease associations of excessive daytime sleepiness in multiple sclerosis: A prospective study Sguigna PV, Toranian S, Tardo LM, Blackburn KM, Horton LA, Conger D, Meltzer E, Hogan RN, McCreary M, Zee PC, Takahashi JS, Greenberg BM Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical 2023 Jan 9 Clinical Reasoning: A 59-Year-Old Man with Thymoma and Constitutional Symptoms, Seizures, and Multifocal CNS Lesions Stopschinski BE, Fredrich S, Vernino S, Phillips L, Blackburn KM Neurology 2022 Dec 99 1115-1121 Refractory Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis in Early Pregnancy: A Case Report of Treatment Course and Pregnancy Outcomes Fredrich S, Wang C, Narayan R, Tardo L, Blackburn KM, Vernino S Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation 2022 Sep 9 Low Recruitment in a Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Ocrelizumab for Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Case Series and Review of Lessons Learned Blackburn KM, Denney DA, Hopkins SC, Vernino SA Neurology and Therapy 2022 Jun 11 893-903 Paraneoplastic syndromes Blackburn KM, Vernino S 2022 Jan 109-116 Results 1-10 of 26 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards James T. Lubin Clinician Scientist Fellowship Award (2018-2020) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Neurology (2014) American Neurological Association (2020)
