Psychiatric Presentations of Vector Borne Diseases with Dr. Shannon Delaney

In my recent interview series, "Our Toxic Nation: A Call for Reformation," I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Shannon Delaney about the impact of vector-borne diseases on mental health. This interview, titled “Psychiatric Presentations of Vector Borne Diseases,” is a welcome relief to me personally, as I am pleased to learn that this concept is starting to gain traction within the medical community. My TBIs, neuro Lyme, and coinfections were misdiagnosed as several psychiatric conditions, which led me to be severely overmedicated for longer than I’d care to admit.

Bio for Dr. Shannon Delaney

Shannon Delaney, MD, earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2009. She completed her residency training in adult psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in 2012 and completed her clinical child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Columbia/Cornell in 2014. She pursued a 3-year NIH-sponsored research fellowship at Columbia University studying immune and infectious biomarkers of psychosis with Dr. Brian Fallon as her mentor. She joined the faculty at CUIMC in 2017, doing a mix of clinical and research work. While at CUIMC, she specialized in seeing children and adults with complex neuropsychiatric presentations, after suspected Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases, as well as PANS/PANDAS patients. In July 2023, she started a private practice in Manhattan, specializing in complex neuropsychiatric presentations related to infections in kids and adults.

To contact Dr. Delaney, please call (646) 856-9592

Find the interview series, "Our Toxic Nation: A Call for Reformation," at www.ourtoxicnation.com