My guest today is Dr. Andrew J. Maxwell. Dr. Maxwell is a Board Certified Pediatric Cardiologist and Pediatrician. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School and a Residency in Pediatrics at The University of California at San Francisco followed by clinical and research fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at Lucile Salter Packard and Stanford Hospitals and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

His research interests include study of endothelial control of vasomotor tone, nitric oxide, sports cardiology, dysautonomia, hypermobility syndromes, & mast cell activation syndrome and their relationships to environmental toxins. For his research he received an American Heart Association Bugher Award for Research in Molecular Biology and was an American College of Cardiology Young Investigator Award finalist. He has published many articles and book chapters on these subjects. For his clinical work, he has been voted by his peers as a Top Doctor in Northern California annually since 2017.

You can find out more about Dr. Maxwell at heartofthevalley.us.

Show Notes:

• Disjointed: Navigating the Diagnosis and Management of Hypermobile Ehylers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (Chapter 10, by Dr. Andrew Maxwell)
• Dysautonomia: The Pentad Super-Syndrome presentation
• Standing Up to POTS
• Monro-Kellie Doctrine
• Functionality and Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves: Link
• Beighton Score: Link
• Jeffery Boris, MID: Link to website
• Lawrence B. Afrin, MD - Root of Mast Cell Disease: Link to website
• Publications by Dr. Andrew Maxwell Listed on Standing Up to POTS: Link