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    MediFind found 1258 doctor with experience in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Of these, 1034 are Experienced, 185 are Advanced, 32 are Distinguished and 7 are Elite.

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    1,258 providers found
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Shimotsuke, JP 

      Hitoshi Osaka practices in Shimotsuke, Japan. Mr. Osaka is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, CACH Syndrome, Leigh Syndrome, and West Syndrome.

      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Kochi, JP 

      Ken Inoue practices in Kochi, Japan. Mr. Inoue is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, CACH Syndrome, Colorectal Polyps, Endoscopy, and Colonoscopy.

      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Beijing, CN 

      Yuwu Jiang practices in Beijing, China. Jiang is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Their top areas of expertise are Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, CACH Syndrome, Epilepsy, and Epilepsy in Children.

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      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      215 Heping West Road, 
      Shijiazhuang, CN 

      Dongxiao Li practices in Shijiazhuang, China. Li is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Their top areas of expertise are Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Methylmalonic Acidemia, CACH Syndrome, and Leigh Syndrome.

      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Yachiyo, JP 

      Jun-ichi Takanashi practices in Yachiyo, Japan. Mr. Takanashi is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Cerebellar Hypoplasia, CACH Syndrome, and Microcephaly.

      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Osaka, JP 

      Koichi Inoue practices in Osaka, Japan. Mr. Inoue is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, CACH Syndrome, Cardiac Ablation, and Gastrectomy.

      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Elite in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Setagaya, JP 

      Yuki Miyamoto practices in Setagaya, Japan. Miyamoto is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Their top areas of expertise are Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Leukodystrophy, Diabetic Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome, Asperger's Syndrome, and Osteotomy.

      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

      Vanderbilt Medical Group- Teleneurology

      1161 21st Ave South, A-0118 Medical Center North, 
      Nashville, TN 
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      . Dr. Brown is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Hereditary Ataxia, and Huntington Disease.

      Experienced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Experienced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

      BHMA Neurology- Telehealth

      701 Med Tech Pkwy, Ste 300, 
      Johnson City, TN 
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      . Dr. Lafleur is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Memory Loss, Seizures, Movement Disorders, and Parkinson's Disease.

      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

      Oxford Physical Therapy And Rehabilitation

      7567 Central Parke Blvd, A, 
      Mason, OH 
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Spanish
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Lawrence Goldstick is a Neurologist in Mason, Ohio. Dr. Goldstick is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), Cerebellar Degeneration, and Peripheral Neuropathy. Dr. Goldstick is currently accepting new patients.

      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      3300 Main Street, 3rd Floor Suite C&d, 
      Springfield, MA 
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Meghan Hickey is a Neurologist in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Hickey is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Migraine, Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy with Auditory Features, and Tension Headache.

      Odile Tanguy-Boespflug
      Distinguished in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Distinguished in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Paris, FR 

      Odile Tanguy-Boespflug practices in Paris, France. Ms. Tanguy-Boespflug is rated as a Distinguished expert by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Leukodystrophy, Spastic Paraplegia Type 2, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

      Gerald V. Raymond
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Pediatrics | Medical Genetics
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Pediatrics | Medical Genetics

      Rubenstein Child Health Building

      Baltimore, MD 
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Dr. Gerald Raymond is a clinical geneticist and neurologist at Johns Hopkins where he is also a professor of genetic medicine and neurology. He obtained his MD at the University of Connecticut and was trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Neurology at the Mass. General Hospital. He received additional training in developmental neuropathology at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and clinical genetics at the Harvard Program. Dr. Raymond’s research has been at the overlap of genetics and neurology with specific focus on peroxisomal disorders including adrenoleukodystrophy. He has been actively involved in newborn screening for ALD and in developing clinical follow-up programs. He has extensive experience in clinical management of neurogenetic issues including peroxisomal and lysosomal disorders. He presently serves as the Director of the Lysosomal Storage Disease program in the department of Genetic Medicine. Dr. Raymond is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), CACH Syndrome, Zellweger Syndrome, and Leukodystrophy.

      Sumit Parikh
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Pediatric Neurology
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Pediatric Neurology

      Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

      9500 Euclid Avenue, 
      Cleveland, OH 
      Experience:
      32+ years
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Sumit Parikh is a Pediatric Neurologist in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Parikh has been practicing medicine for over 32 years and is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Kearns-Sayre Syndrome, Maternally Inherited Leigh Syndrome, Leigh Syndrome, and MELAS Syndrome.

      Kerry R. Bianchi
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Internal Medicine
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Internal Medicine

      Atrium Health Kannapolis Internal Medicine

      201 Dale Earnhardt Blvd., Suite 200, 
      Kannapolis, NC 
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Kerry Bianchi is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Dr. Bianchi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, Hypertension, Familial Hypertension, and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young. Dr. Bianchi is currently accepting new patients.

      Mary Rensel
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Neurology
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Neurology

      Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

      1950 East 89th Street, 
      Cleveland, OH 
      Experience:
      38+ years
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Mary Rensel is a Neurologist in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Rensel has been practicing medicine for over 38 years and is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), Transverse Myelitis, and Neuromyelitis Optica.

      Ali Fatemi
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Pediatric Neurology
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Pediatric Neurology

      Kennedy Krieger Institute

      707 North Broadway, Neurology Department, Neurology Department, 
      Baltimore, MD 
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Arabic, Farsi, German

      Dr. Fatemi received his medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria in 1999. After graduation, he served as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Medical Chemistry in Vienna and at the Department of Pediatrics at the Vienna General Hospital. He then moved to the United States to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics and neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001. During this initial period, Dr. Fatemi collaborated with a team of scientists and developed new imaging methods in patients with leukodystrophies (rare genetic diseases that affect the brain's white matter) and coordinated an internet-2 based imaging network for these diseases. He then left Kennedy Krieger Institute to train in general pediatrics and then completed a child neurology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fatemi returned to the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2008 as faculty. He is a member of the Child Neurology Society, the International Child Neurology Association, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Academy of Neurology and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He has served as ad hoc reviewer for the Journals Child Development and American Journal of Neuroradiology. Dr. Fatemi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), CACH Syndrome, Canavan Disease, and Leukodystrophy.

      Todd Rafferty
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Family Medicine
      Advanced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Family Medicine

      Stow-Falls Express And Outpatient Care

      857 Graham Road, 
      Cuyahoga Fls, OH 
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Todd Rafferty is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Cuyahoga Fls, Ohio. Dr. Rafferty is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Alexander Disease, and Canavan Disease.

      Experienced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Neurology
      Experienced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Neurology

      University Of Cincinnati Physicians Company LLC

      68 Cavalier Blvd, 
      Florence, KY 
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Farsi
      Accepting New Patients

      Aram Zabeti is a Neurologist in Florence, Kentucky. Dr. Zabeti is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), Optic Neuritis, and Neuromyelitis Optica. Dr. Zabeti is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
      Experienced in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

      University Of Virginia Physicians Group

      1221 Lee St, 
      Charlottesville, VA 
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Hebrew
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Brian Weinshenker is a Neurologist in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Weinshenker is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. His top areas of expertise are Transverse Myelitis, Neuromyelitis Optica, Optic Neuritis, and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Dr. Weinshenker is currently accepting new patients.

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      Last Updated: 01/09/2026

      What is the definition of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease?

      Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease is a disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord. It is a type of leukodystrophy and is characterized by problems with coordination, motor skills, and learning. It is caused by an inability to form myelin due to genetic changes in the PLP1 gene. It is passed through families in an X-linked recessive pattern. The condition primarily affects males.

      When should I see a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor near me?

      There are various reasons why you may want to see a specialist, such as: 

      • Your primary care provider recommends it. 
      • Your condition requires expert knowledge and specialized care. 
      • Your symptoms persist or worsen despite treatment. 
      • You need specialized testing or procedures. 
      • You want a second opinion.  

      What should I consider when choosing a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor near me?

      It’s important to see a provider with expertise in your specific condition. Each provider profile in MediFind’s doctor database includes information on which conditions they treat, years of experience, research contributions, languages spoken, insurance plans accepted, and more.  

      How does MediFind rank Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctors near me?

      MediFind’s rankings are based on a variety of data sources, such as the number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials and industry conferences, as well as the number of patients that provider sees for a given condition. Note that MediFind’s provider database is not based on user reviews, and providers do not pay to be included in the database. 

      What types of insurance are accepted by Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctors near me?

      Most profiles in MediFind’s doctor database include a list of insurance plans accepted by that provider. However, it’s a good idea to contact the provider’s office to make sure they still accept your insurance, then doublecheck by contacting your insurance plan to confirm they’re in network. 

      How can I book an appointment online with a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor near me?

      MediFind offers direct scheduling for certain providers using the “Request Appointment” button on that provider’s profile. If the schedule option is not available for a provider, tap the red “Show Phone Number” button on their profile to get their contact information. If you prefer to find providers who offer online scheduling, select “Schedules online” under the “Availability” category of the filter feature on the left side of the Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor search results page. 

      Why is it important to get a second opinion from a different Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor?

      Second opinions are an opportunity to confirm a diagnosis and its root cause, learn about alternative treatment options, or simply gain peace of mind. Many people, especially those with serious diagnoses, get second opinions so they can understand all their options and make informed decisions, so don’t hesitate to get one if you have any doubts or need more information or clarification regarding your care. Note that some insurance plans require second opinions, while others don’t cover second opinions, so be sure to confirm with your insurance provider first.   

      How can I prepare for my appointment with a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor near me?

      Prepare for your appointment by gathering the following items: 

      • Copies of medical records (dating back at least one year) 
      • Your medical history, including illnesses, medical conditions, surgeries, and other doctors you see 
      • Family history of disease 
      • List of current prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal remedies or supplements including names and doses 
      • Allergies to medications, food, latex, insects, etc.  
      • List of questions and concerns 
      • Your insurance card 

      You might also contact the provider’s office to see if they offer transportation or childcare services or if you’re allowed to bring a loved one for support or to take notes during your visit. 

      What questions should I ask my Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor?

      Here are some sample questions: 

      • Can you explain in simple terms what this condition is and how it’s treated? 
      • What symptoms or side effects should I watch for? 
      • What tests will be involved, and when can I expect results? 
      • Are there other specialists I need to see? 
      • What’s the best way to reach you if I have follow-up questions? 

      How can I learn about the latest clinical trials and research advances my Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor may know about?

      MediFind’s Clinical Trials tool asks you a series of questions to help you narrow down your search by health condition, age, gender, location, how far you’re willing to travel, and more. Each question you answer filters down the number of trials until you find the ones that are most relevant to you. 

      MediFind’s Latest Advances tool features summaries of recent articles published in medical journals. We use cutting-edge technology to scour medical publication databases for the latest research advancements on any given condition, then we simplify this information in a way that’s useful and easy to understand. 

      Can I filter my search to show male or female Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctors near me?

      Look for the filter feature on the left side of the Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor search results page. Select “Female” or “Male” under the “Gender” category to search for female or male providers exclusively. If the “Any” option is selected, it will pull results for both male and female providers. 

      Can I filter my search to find a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor that offers video calls?

      Look for the filter feature on the left-side of the Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease doctor search results page. Select “Offers telehealth visits” under the Availability category to search for providers who offer virtual appointments (video calls). 

      Reviewed on: 11/11/24  

      By: MediFind Medical Staff 

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