Lauren Phillips, M.D.

Neurology Residency Program Director

Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute

Neurology
Neuromuscular Disorders

Biography

Lauren Therese Phillips, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Director of the Neurology Residency Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in neuromuscular and autonomic disorders.

Dr. Phillips earned her medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine. She completed both her residency in neurology and fellowship in neuromuscular medicine at UT Southwestern and then received advanced training in metabolic and mitochondrial myopathies through a clinical research fellowship at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the United Council for Neurological Subspecialties, Dr. Phillips joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2013.

Dr. Phillips’s clinical and research interests include neuropathies, myasthenia gravis, myopathies, and autonomic disorders. She is an expert at performing nerve conduction studies, electromyography, and autonomic function tests, and she has been involved in several clinical trials. Currently, she is the site investigator for a clinical trial focused on cryptogenic sensory peripheral neuropathy.

Dr. Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Autonomic Society.

Education & Training

Fellowship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2012-2014), Neuromuscular Disease
Residency - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2009-2012), Neurology
Medical School - UT Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine (2004-2008)
Internship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2008-2009), Internal Medicine

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Academy of Neurology
American Autonomic Society

Honors & Awards

D Magazine Best Doctor 2022
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 2019

Books & Publications

Publications
- Clinical Reasoning: A 59-Year-Old Man with Thymoma and Constitutional Symptoms, Seizures, and Multifocal CNS Lesions
  Stopschinski BE, Fredrich S, Vernino S, Phillips L, Blackburn KM Neurology 2022 Dec 99 1115-1121
- Brachial Plexus Tolerance to Single-Session SABR in a Pig Model
  Hrycushko B, van der Kogel AJ, Phillips L, Chhabra A, Folkert MR, Sayre JW, Vernino S, Hassan-Rezaeian N, Yamada Y, Timmerman R, Medin PM International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2022 Feb 112 565-571
- Ganglionic Acetylcholine Receptor Antibodies in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
  Bryarly M, Raj SR, Phillips L, Hynan LS, Okamoto LE, Arnold AC, Paranjape SY, Vernino M, Black BK, Vernino S Neurology: Clinical Practice 2021 Aug 11 E397-E401
- A comparison of health-related quality of life in autonomic disorders: postural tachycardia syndrome versus vasovagal syncope
  Hall J, Bourne KM, Sheldon RS, Vernino S, Raj V, Ng J, Okamoto LE, Arnold AC, Bryarly M, Phillips L, Paranjape SY, Raj SR Clinical Autonomic Research 2021 Jun 31 433-441
- Existence of a Dose-Length Effect in Spinal Nerves Receiving Single-Session Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy
  Hrycushko B, van der Kogel AJ, Phillips L, Folkert MR, Sayre JW, Vernino S, Hassan-Rezaeian N, Foster RD, Yamada Y, Timmerman R, Medin PM International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2020 Apr 106 1010-1016
- Spinal Nerve Tolerance to Single-Session Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy
  Hrycushko B, van der Kogel AJ, Phillips L, Folkert MR, Sayre JW, Vernino S, Hassan-Rezaeian N, Foster RD, Yamada Y, Timmerman R, Medin PM International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2019 Jul 104 845-851
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: JACC Focus Seminar
  Bryarly M, Phillips LT, Fu Q, Vernino S, Levine BD Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2019 Mar 73 1207-1228
- Usefulness of blood pressure variability indices derived from 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in detecting autonomic failure
  Lodhi HA, Peri-Okonny PA, Schesing K, Phelps K, Ngo C, Evans H, Arbique D, Price AL, Vernino S, Phillips L, Mitchell JH, Smith SA, Yano Y, Das SR, Wang T, Vongpatanasin W Journal of the American Heart Association 2019 8
- Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies
  Phillips LT, Trivedi JR Neurotherapeutics 2018 Oct 15 954-965
- Impaired glycogen breakdown and synthesis in phosphoglucomutase 1 deficiency
  Preisler N, Cohen J, Vissing CR, Madsen KL, Heinicke K, Sharp LJ, Phillips L, Romain N, Park SY, Newby M, Wyrick P, Mancias P, Galbo H, Vissing J, Haller RG Molecular genetics and metabolism 2017 Nov 122 117-121
- MR imaging of skeletal muscle signal alterations: Systematic approach to evaluation
  Kumar Y, Wadhwa V, Phillips L, Pezeshk P, Chhabra A European Journal of Radiology 2016 May 85 922-935
- Intravenous methylprednisolone versus therapeutic plasma exchange for treatment of anti-n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antibody encephalitis: A retrospective review
  Desena AD, Noland DK, Matevosyan K, King K, Phillips L, Qureshi SS, Greenberg BM, Graves D Journal of Clinical Apheresis 2015 Aug 30 212-216
- Hereditary and acquired polyneuropathy conditions of the peripheral nerves: Clinical considerations and MR neurography imaging
  Trivedi JR, Phillips L, Chhabra A Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology 2015 Apr 19 130-136
- Muscle channelopathies
  Statland J, Phillips L, Trivedi JR Neurologic Clinics 2014 Aug 32 801-815
- Paraneoplastic vasculitis of the peripheral nervous system
  Phillips L, Vernino S 2014 Jan 2 195-203
- Clinical/scientific notes
  Phillips L, Singer MA Neurology 2013 Feb 80 773-774

Research

Autonomic Disorders
Myasthenia Gravis
Myopathy
Peripheral Neuropathy

Clinical Focus

Neuromuscular Disorders