Dr. Alexis Franks
Overview
Alexis Franks, MD, is a specialist in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and is certified in Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine and completed her Neurodevelopmental Disabilities residency at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Franks’s clinical interests include neurogenetic, neurometabolic, and intellectual developmental disorders, and her research interests include neurodevelopmental implications of exogenous perinatal exposures. She has multiple publications and is a member of the Child Neurology Society, the American Academy of Neurology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Neuroscience, and the American Medical Association. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family and enjoys hiking with her two Scottish terriers. View the full list of Dr. Franks’s publications on PubMed.
Dr. Franks is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypotonia. Her top areas of expertise are Dysarthria, Hypotonia, and Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1).
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 6 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 1 article in the study of Hypotonia.
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Locations
3420 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Franks has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
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Areas of Expertise
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- DysarthriaDr. Franks isExperienced. Learn about Dysarthria.
- HypotoniaDr. Franks isExperienced. Learn about Hypotonia.