Jordan Fuson Garris, MD
Movement Disorders Neurology
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Bio & Overview
Jordan F. Garris, MD, is a pediatric neurologist who specializes in caring for children and adolescents with neurological disorders, particularly movement disorders such as tics, tremor, and more rare brain-related balance problems (ataxia) and involuntary movements including dystonia and chorea. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in studying functional impairment and neurophysiologic abnormalities related to Tourette syndrome.
Garris received her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. She then completed residency training in child neurology and a pediatric movement disorders fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Garris is a recipient of the Fullerton Foundation Scholarship, awarded to only three students in North Carolina and South Carolina beginning medical school who show potential for making an impact on the welfare of society. She is paying it forward by teaching and mentoring students and pediatric residents interesting in pursuing child neurology.
Academic Information
- Department
- Neurology
- Academic Role
- Assistant Professor
- Division
- Neurology
- Research Interests
- Tics and Tourette Syndrome, functional impairment in Tourette Syndrome, premonitory urge in Tourette Syndrome
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Residency
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Certification
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology)
Highlights
Child Neurologist Jordan Garris, MD
My name is Jordan Garris and I'm a child neurologist. My subspecialty area of interestis movement disorders; tics, such as in Tourette's syndrome, stereotypies, tremor, ataxia, dystonia, chorea. But then I also see patients who have other diagnoses in child neurology; seizures, epilepsy, headaches, developmental delay. Growing up my father was a family physician and I had a lot of respect for him and the long-term relationships that he had with patients over time. I have always valued that and seeing him as a role model and wanted to emulate that in some way in my career and so medicine was a way to balance that sort of long-term relationship with also a continual intellectual stimulation. A new patient who's coming to see me, sometimes patients may have a lot of information in the medical chart or maybe not, but either way I like to hear their story from the patient themselves and or their family. In child neurology we can't always change what the ultimate outcome is going to be, but it's really about helping patients with their quality of life and their family's quality of life and making patients know that I am going to be there and help them achieve those goals as best able and walking that road with them is very rewarding.
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