Rate My Professor Amanda Piquet

Amanda Piquet, MD, is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, where she serves as Director and Celine Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology. She earned her MD from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She completed an internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital Program and a residency in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program. She then pursued a fellowship in Autoimmune Neurology/Neuroimmunology at the University of Utah Medical Center Program.

Dr. Piquet sub-specializes in autoimmune neurological diseases, multiple sclerosis, and other inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system, with a primary clinical focus on antibody-mediated disorders such as autoimmune encephalitis and stiff person syndrome, as well as demyelinating conditions including multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. Her research interests center on optimizing diagnosis and treatment for patients with autoimmune neurological diseases, including the development of standardized guidelines and protocols for the diagnostic workup and treatment of autoimmune encephalitis and stiff person syndrome. She has established an Autoimmune, Paraneoplastic and Inflammatory Neurological Disease Registry and Biorepository at the University of Colorado. Dr. Piquet has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics including the epidemiology of stiff person syndrome, biomarkers in autoimmune encephalitis, and related neuroimmunological conditions.