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Title: Susan Swedo Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:susan-swedo URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Swedo Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT Susan Swedo is an American researcher in the field of pediatrics and neuropsychiatry. Beginning in 1998, she was Chief of the Pediatrics & Developmental Neuroscience Branch at the US National Institute of Mental Health. In 1994, Swedo was lead author on a paper describing pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), a controversial hypothesis proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome. Swedo retired from the NIH in 2019, and serves on the PANDAS Physician Network.