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
- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
  Phillips L., Friedman DI Ophthalmology, Fifth Edition. Yanoff M and Duker J, (eds.): London, Mosby, Lynton House. 2019. 944-949
- Paraneoplastic vasculitis of the peripheral nervous system
  Phillips LT and Vernino S The Vasculitidies: Nervous System Vasculitis and Treatment, Volume 2. Ed. David S. Younger. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2015. 195-203
- 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 4 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 : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society 2021 Jun 31 3 433-441
- 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 Apr 8 7 e010161
- Spinal nerve tolerance to single-session stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SAbR).
  Hrycushko B, van der Kogel AJ, Phillips L, Folkert M, Sayre JW, Vernino S, Hassan-Rezaeian N, Foster RD, Yamada Y, Timmerman R, Medin PM, International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2019 Apr
- 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 10 1207-1228
- Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies.
  Phillips L, Trivedi JR Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2018 Oct
- 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 Aug
- 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 5 922-35
- 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 2 130-6
- 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 Feb
- Muscle Channelopathies.
  Statland J, Phillips L, Trivedi JR Neurologic clinics 2014 Aug 32 3 801-815
- Peripheral neuropathy due to dinitrophenol used for weight loss: something old, something new.
  Phillips L, Singer MA, Neurology 2013 Feb 80 8 773-4
- Review of Aminoff's Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology, Sixth Edition.
  Phillips LT 2013 70 7 943
- Structural studies examining the substrate specificity profiles of PC-PLC(Bc) protein variants.
  Benfield AP, Goodey NM, Phillips LT, Martin SF Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 2007 Apr 460 1 41-7

Research

Autonomic Disorders
Myasthenia Gravis
Myopathy
Peripheral Neuropathy

Clinical Focus

Neuromuscular Disorders