Dr Susa Benseler is our guest in this latest episode of our Ask The Expert segment, today focused on CNS vasculitis and autoimmune encephalitis. Joining co-hosts Daniel Ennis and Janet Pope, Dr Benseler discusses the broad categories of inflammatory brain disorders and which ones rheumatologists should be responsible for, as well as topics like lab based investigations, imaging (how you choose the right test and how should we approach interpretation), brain biopsies, what's in the pipeline and more.

Dr Benseler is the Director of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, a Professor in the Department Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, the Cenovus Energy Chair in Child and Maternal Health and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Chair in Pediatric Research.

A special thank you to the podcast team, Dr. Dax G. Rumsey (CRA Communications Committee Chair), Dr. Daniel Ennis (Host), Dr. Janet Pope (Host), David McGuffin (Producer, Explore Podcast Productions), and Erin Stewart (Marketing and Communications Director, CRA) for leading production. 

Our theme music was composed by Aaron Fontwell. 

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