Dr. Kolevzon has been leading a team of clinicians to develop clinical guidelines for the management and monitoring of PMS.  Kate asks - what are clinical consensus guidelines exactly? Which categories of medical care will be included? When will the guidelines be released? How can families best use this information? How are guidelines developed? How have the guidelines changed since the first iteration in 2014? What areas of research have seen the most growth? How can families bring forward patterns they notice to help shape the guidelines as they continue to evolve?

Dr. Alex Kolevzon is a psychiatrist and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a long-standing expert in Phelan-McDermid syndrome research as a leader of the PMS Neuropsychiatric Consult Group, the PMS Natural History Study, the PMSF medical advisory committee, and he sees many people with PMS in the clinic.