Jodi Lindsey, MD

  • Child Neurology/Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Jodi Lindsey is currently participating in her sixth and final year of medical residency through UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in the specialty of Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. This is a pediatric specialty of medicine that incorporates training in general pediatrics, child neurology, developmental pediatrics, and psychiatry. Jodi chose this specialty many years ago after knowing that she wanted to spend her future working with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities based on various experiences with incredible children and families that she has had the pleasure to be involved with, starting back in her high school years and extending throughout her educational journey. 

Throughout her undergraduate years spent at the University of Notre Dame, where she graduated with a BS in biology in 2002, Jodi was given the opportunity to train in Applied Behavioral Analysis and to work with multiple children with autism spectrum disorders and their families directly in their homes on behavioral programs. 
Jodi also was provided the opportunity to establish a University Club at Notre Dame that is still in existence today, called Special Friends, which provides families with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, particularly autism spectrum disorders living in the extended South Bend, IN region, with in-home assistance in their behavioral programming and free educational conferences. Jodi also continued work with individual families in West Virginia, where she attended medical school at West Virginia University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. in 2006. She assisted as a respite care provider for various children and provided behavioral intervention planning as well. 

Jodi is currently participating in various clinical activities throughout this academic year, including maintaining her own child neurology and child development clinics through Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and participating as a clinician in the LEND clinic through the University of Pittsburgh. Her major areas of clinical interests continue to primarily revolve around autism spectrum disorders and their early diagnoses, but also include Tourette Syndrome and various other movement disorders. Jodi greatly enjoys working with not only the individual patient but with the family as a whole. She looks forward to participating in a multidisciplinary clinic, such as the LEND clinic, as she feels that family-centered care and education are integral in the management of patients with neurodevelopmental disabilities. 

In addition to her clinical responsibilities this academic year, Jodi is also participating in basic scientific research through the University of Pittsburgh. She is investigating various genetic pathways and their affect on neuronal cell proliferation and differentiation. As a translational piece of this research, the team is investigating these pathways’ effects on embryonic brain development and moreover, their possible relationship to various neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral issues.

Jodi Lindsey, MD | Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Related Disorders

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