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Emmanuelle L. Waubant, Ph.D., M.D.

Neurologist

Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant is a neurologist and specialist in the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). A native of France, she earned her medical degree at the University of Medicine in Lille, France, and completed her residency and chief residency at Toulouse University Hospital. Waubant completed fellowships in neuroimmunology at UCSF Medical Center and in clinical neuroimmunology at UCSF's Multiple Sclerosis Center at Mount Zion. She then returned to France to head a clinical research center at the Pitie-Salpetriere University Hospital. After returning to UCSF, she joined the staff of UCSF's Multiple Sclerosis Center and is an assistant professor in neurology.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

UCSF Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center
350 Parnassus Ave., Suite 908
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 353-3939

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Education

University of Medicine, Lille, France 1992

Residencies

Purpan University Hospital, Neurology 1992

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Neurology 1999

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Hosseini H, Mandat T, Waubant E, Agid Y, Lubetzki C, Lyon-Caen O, Stankoff B, Jedynak P, Cesaro P, Palfi S, Nguyen JP. Unilateral thalamic deep brain stimulation for disabling kinetic tremor in multiple sclerosis. Neurosurgery. 2012 Jan; 70(1):66-9.
  2. Langer-Gould A, Zhang JL, Chung J, Yeung Y, Waubant E, Yao J. Incidence of acquired CNS demyelinating syndromes in a multiethnic cohort of children. Neurology. 2011 Sep 20; 77(12):1143-8.
  3. Teunissen CE, Tumani H, Bennett JL, Berven FS, Brundin L, Comabella M, Franciotta D, Federiksen JL, Fleming JO, Furlan R, Hintzen RQ, Hughes SG, Jimenez CR, Johnson MH, Killestein J, Krasulova E, Kuhle J, Magnone MC, Petzold A, Rajda C, Rejdak K, Schmidt HK, van Pesch V, Waubant E, Wolf C, Deisenhammer F, Giovannoni G, Hemmer B. Consensus Guidelines for CSF and Blood Biobanking for CNS Biomarker Studies. Mult Scler Int. 2011; 2011:246412.
  4. Waubant E, Mowry EM, Krupp L, Chitnis T, Yeh EA, Kuntz N, Ness J, Chabas D, Strober J, McDonald J, Belman A, Milazzo M, Gorman M, Weinstock-Guttman B, Rodriguez M, Oksenberg JR, James JA. Common viruses associated with lower pediatric multiple sclerosis risk. Neurology. 2011 Jun 7; 76(23):1989-95.
  5. Waubant EL. Preface: multiple sclerosis in the 21st century. Neurol Clin. 2011 May; 29(2):xiii-xiv.
  6. Chitnis T, Krupp L, Yeh A, Rubin J, Kuntz N, Strober JB, Chabas D, Weinstock-Guttmann B, Ness J, Rodriguez M, Waubant E. Pediatric multiple sclerosis. Neurol Clin. 2011 May; 29(2):481-505.
  7. Castillo-Trivino T, Mowry EM, Gajofatto A, Chabas D, Crabtree-Hartman E, Cree BA, Goodin DS, Green AJ, Okuda DT, Pelletier D, Zamvil SS, Vittinghoff E, Waubant E. Switching multiple sclerosis patients with breakthrough disease to second-line therapy. PLoS One. 2011; 6(2):e16664.
  8. Polman CH, Reingold SC, Banwell B, Clanet M, Cohen JA, Filippi M, Fujihara K, Havrdova E, Hutchinson M, Kappos L, Lublin FD, Montalban X, O'Connor P, Sandberg-Wollheim M, Thompson AJ, Waubant E, Weinshenker B, Wolinsky JS. Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 revisions to the McDonald criteria. Ann Neurol. 2011 Feb; 69(2):292-302.
  9. Okuda DT, Mowry EM, Cree BA, Crabtree EC, Goodin DS, Waubant E, Pelletier D. Asymptomatic spinal cord lesions predict disease progression in radiologically isolated syndrome. Neurology. 2011 Feb 22; 76(8):686-92.
  10. Mowry EM, James JA, Krupp LB, Waubant E. Vitamin D status and antibody levels to common viruses in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler. 2011 Jun; 17(6):666-71.
  11. Yeh EA, Waubant E, Krupp LB, Ness J, Chitnis T, Kuntz N, Ramanathan M, Belman A, Chabas D, Gorman MP, Rodriguez M, Rinker JR, Weinstock-Guttman B. Multiple sclerosis therapies in pediatric patients with refractory multiple sclerosis. Arch Neurol. 2011 Apr; 68(4):437-44.
  12. Mowry EM, Julian LJ, Im-Wang S, Chabas D, Galvin AJ, Strober JB, Waubant E. Health-related quality of life is reduced in pediatric multiple sclerosis. Pediatr Neurol. 2010 Aug; 43(2):97-102.
  13. Cross AH, Waubant E. MS and the B cell controversy. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2011 Feb; 1812(2):231-8.
  14. Kruer MC, Koch TK, Bourdette DN, Chabas D, Waubant E, Mueller S, Moscarello MA, Dalmau J, Woltjer RL, Adamus G. NMDA receptor encephalitis mimicking seronegative neuromyelitis optica. Neurology. 2010 May 4; 74(18):1473-5.
  15. Mowry EM, Krupp LB, Milazzo M, Chabas D, Strober JB, Belman AL, McDonald JC, Oksenberg JR, Bacchetti P, Waubant E. Vitamin D status is associated with relapse rate in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol. 2010 May; 67(5):618-24.
  16. O'Connor KC, Lopez-Amaya C, Gagne D, Lovato L, Moore-Odom NH, Kennedy J, Krupp L, Tenembaum S, Ness J, Belman A, Boyko A, Bykova O, Mah JK, Stoian CA, Waubant E, Kremenchutzky M, Ruggieri M, Bardini MR, Rensel M, Hahn J, Weinstock-Guttman B, Yeh EA, Farrell K, Freedman MS, Iivanainen M, Bhan V, Dilenge M, Hancock MA, Gano D, Fattahie R, Kopel L, Fournier AE, Moscarello M, Banwell B, Bar-Or A. Anti-myelin antibodies modulate clinical expression of childhood multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol. 2010 Jun; 223(1-2):92-9.
  17. Bar-Or A, Fawaz L, Fan B, Darlington PJ, Rieger A, Ghorayeb C, Calabresi PA, Waubant E, Hauser SL, Zhang J, Smith CH. Abnormal B-cell cytokine responses a trigger of T-cell-mediated disease in MS? Ann Neurol. 2010 Apr; 67(4):452-61.
  18. Kuntz NL, Chabas D, Weinstock-Guttman B, Chitnis T, Yeh EA, Krupp L, Ness J, Rodriguez M, Waubant E. Treatment of multiple sclerosis in children and adolescents. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2010 Mar; 11(4):505-20.
  19. Chabas D, Ness J, Belman A, Yeh EA, Kuntz N, Gorman MP, Strober JB, De Kouchkovsky I, McCulloch C, Chitnis T, Rodriguez M, Weinstock-Guttman B, Krupp LB, Waubant E. Younger children with MS have a distinct CSF inflammatory profile at disease onset. Neurology. 2010 Feb 2; 74(5):399-405.
  20. Cree B, Waubant E. Does race matter for multiple sclerosis? Neurology. 2010 Feb 16; 74(7):532-3.

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