Research Projects

Research Projects – Current & Previous 

Here at The London PANS Clinic & Research Centre, our team conducts research projects from our database of patients. This work helps advance medical knowledge in the PANS PANDAS field while also ensuring that we are delivering high standards of patient care, evidence-based treatment, and effective outcomes. 

On this page, you will find details of both past and ongoing research projects.

The London PANS Clinic and Research Centre Team members at the Seattle AACAP Research Conference.

Our research team at the AACAP annual meeting in Seattle, 2024

Research Conferences

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Annual Meeting – Seattle 2024 

AACAP is the world’s largest organisation for paediatric psychology conferences. At these events, we met with leading experts—primarily from the United States—on the latest developments and best practices in children’s psychology, with a particular focus on conditions related to PANS and PANDAS. We have also presented our own research to conference attendees and published findings in the AACAP journal.

Scientific research poster from the London PANS Clinic and Research Centre.

Our research poster that we presented in Seattle in 2024. We conducted a retrospective qualitative audit on The Prevalence of Urinary Symptoms in UK Children with PANDAS.

 

AACAP Annual Conference – Chicago – October 2025 

We are very excited to be presenting our research again this year in Chicago at the AACAP annual meeting. Below are posters that we are presenting at their New Research segment of the conference.

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