Dr. Kendall Backstrand Nash MD
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
505 Parnassus Ave # 0114 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Kendall Nash is a child neurologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Nash specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system in children from birth to young adulthood. With combined understanding of childhood illness and the special needs of each individual child and their family, Dr. Nash is able to help each patient improve the status of their health. Conditions such as seizures, delayed speech, weakness or frequent headaches are treated by child neurologists.
Education and Training
University of California 2004
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The sickle cell mutual assistance movement.
- Sickle cell mutual assistance groups and the health services delivery system.
- Family counseling in sickle cell anemia.
- A review of the recent literature: paraprofessionals and community mental health.
- Developing roles for macro practitioners within the health field.
- Depression, disease severity, and sickle cell disease.
- A psychosocial perspective. Growing up with thalassemia, a chronic disorder.
- Electroencephalography monitoring in critically ill children: current practice and implications for future study design.
- Electrographic seizures after convulsive status epilepticus in children and young adults: a retrospective multicenter study.
- Continuous Video Electroencephalographic (EEG) Monitoring for Electrographic Seizure Diagnosis in Neonates: A Single-Center Study.
- Project team organization and its application to crisis intervention.
- The group psychotherapist and the training of the new mental health worker: what else is new?
- Sensitivity training and the black community.
- Group guidance and counseling programs: a vehicle for the introduction of sex education for adolescents in the public school.
- Social work in a university hospital. Commitment to social work teaching in a psychiatric emergency division.
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