Alison (Ali) Christy, MD, PhD

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Alison Christy, MD, PhD has been interested in the medical humanities for many years, and has a special love for the history of women and underrepresented minorities in medicine. She is currently Vice Chair of the History of Neurology Section at the American Academy and has taught writing and narrative medicine to medical students and residents. She is the clinical director of the pediatric neurology program at Providence Health and Services in Portland, and the director of the new Providence Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology. She is editor-in-chief of Child Neurology Open, the open-access sister journal of the Journal of Child Neurology. She also makes podcasts for these journals, which can be found here, and she represents the journals on Twitter: @JChildNeurol