Lauren Dengle Sanchez, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (2009)
- Residency
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (2014), Child Neurology
UT Southwestern Medical Center (2011), Pediatrics - Board Certification
- American Board of Psy&Neurology/Child Neurology
Conditions
- Anaplastic astrocytoma
- Ataxia
- Bells palsy
- Brain abscess
- Cerebral palsy (CP) in children
- Developmental delays
- Disorders of gait and movement
- Dystonia
- Gait abnormalities
- Head Trauma
- Headache
- Hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Malformations of cortical development (MCD)
- Microcephaly
- Migraines
- Muscle weakness
- Myoclonus
- Neurofibromatosis (NF)
- Neuronal migration disorders (NMDs)
- Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA)
- Tic disorders
- Tourette syndrome (TS)
- Tremors
- Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)
- Ventriculomegaly
Departments and Programs
-
Research Interests
- Neuro-oncology
-
Publications
Publications
- Aberrant Drp1-mediated mitochondrial division presents in humans with variable outcomes. Whitley BN, Lam C, Cui H, Haude K, Bai R, Escobar L, Hamilton A, Brady L, Tarnopolsky MA, Dengle L, Picker J, Lincoln S, Lackner LL, Glass IA, Hoppins S, Hum. Mol. Genet. 2018 11 27 21 3710-3719
- Identification of novel candidate disease genes from de novo exonic copy number variants. Gambin T, Yuan B, Bi W, Liu P, Rosenfeld JA, Coban-Akdemir Z, Pursley AN, Nagamani SCS, Marom R, Golla S, Dengle L, Petrie HG, Matalon R, Emrick L, Proud MB, Treadwell-Deering D, Chao HT, Koillinen H, Brown C, Urraca N, Mostafavi R, Bernes S, Roeder ER, Nugent KM, Bader PI, Bellus G, Cummings M, Northrup H, Ashfaq M, Westman R, Wildin R, Beck AE, Immken L, Elton L, Varghese S, Buchanan E, Faivre L, Lefebvre M, Schaaf CP, Walkiewicz M, Yang Y, Kang SL, Lalani SR, Bacino CA, Beaudet AL, Breman AM, Smith JL, Cheung SW, Lupski JR, Patel A, Shaw CA, Stankiewicz P Genome Med 2017 Sep 9 1 83
Books
- Acute Seizure in Children in the Emergency Setting. S Auvin and R Sankar (eds.). In Patients with Epilepsy at the Emergency Setting. Dolce A and Hartman A (2013). Montrouge, France, John Libbey Eurotext
-
Professional Activities
- American Academy of Neurology (2011)
-
Awards and Honors
- Best Doctors and Pediatric Specialists: Pediatric Neurology (2021), D Magazine
- Outstanding Mentorship Award (2018), Frisco Independent School District
- Resident Excellence in Care Award (2014), Children’s Medical Center, Neuroscience Nursing Floor
