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Dan Rossignol, MD - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Autism

 

Dan Rossignol, MD, who will soon be joining the International Child Development Resource Center (ICDRC), is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia Department of Family Medicine and a Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) physician.

He received his Doctorate of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Virginia. He is the father of two children with autism, ages five and three. One of his clinical interests is the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in neurodevelopment disorders, including autism.

Dr. Rossignol and Lanier Rossignol, Dr. Rossignol's wife who is a family nurse practitioner and who is involved heavily with the research, authored the study entitled Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may improve symptoms in autistic children, published in Medical Hypotheses. Another study is close to completion (as of May 2006), which is a trial on 18 children using hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and a placebo controlled trial will begin in the next few weeks, to be sponsored by the International Hyperbarics Association.

The Rossignols will also be involved with research in the future and are in the planning stages for several other research studies. http://www.icdrc.org/