Associate Professor of Neurology,
Harvard Medical School
Associate in Neurology,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant in Pathology (Neuropathology),
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Oaklander is Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Pathology (Neuropathology) at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Cornell University and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After neurology residency at UMDNJ, she undertook postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins and joined their Neurosurgery faculty until moving to MGH, where she attends for the neurology service and directs the neurodiagnostic skin-biopsy laboratory that diagnoses small-fiber polyneuropathy. Dr. Oaklander directs the Nerve Unit, an NIH, DoD, and foundation-funded laboratory that studies peripheral nerve problems. She is known for discoveries on complications of shingles, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and small-fiber polyneuropathy. She has more than 100 publications and serves on the editorial board of several journals. She is a Fellow of the American Neurological Association and the American Academy of Neurology. She serves on advisory and review panels for the NIH, the VA, and the Institute of Medicine.
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Mass General Neurology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 855-644-6387
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Selected Publications
Faignart N, Nguyen KH, Soroken C, Poloni C, Downs HM, Laubscher B, Korff C, Oaklander AL*, Roulet Perez E* (2020). Acute monophasic erythromelalgia in five children diagnosed as small-fiber neuropathy. Eur J Pediatric Neurology.
Kelley M, Oaklander AL Association of small-fiber polyneuropathy with 3 previously unassociated rare missense SCN9A variants. Can J Pain, 2020;4:19-29, DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2020.1712652
Oaklander AL, Sharma S, Kessler K, Price BH. Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder: A special sense neuropathy. PAIN Reports, 2020.
Fridman V, Suriyanarayanan S, Novak P, David WS, Macklin E, McKenna-Yasek D, Walsh K, Aziz-Bose R, Oaklander AL, Brown RH, Hornemann T, Eichler F. Randomized Trial of L-Serine in Patients with Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type 1. Neurology, 2019;92:e1-e12. PMID: 30626650
Liu X#, Treister R#, Lang M#, Oaklander AL. IVIg for apparently autoimmune small-fiber polyneuropathy: First analysis of efficacy and safety. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders 2018;11:1-12. PMID: 29403541
* indicates shared first or last authorship, # indicates a formally mentored co-author
Dr. Oaklander is a very caring and brilliant physician who advocates for her patients. I am very grateful that she is my doctor.
Dr Oaklander is wonderful. Kind, caring, compassionate and knowledgeable. I have had skin biopsies previously and they hurt during and after the procedure. I was impressed that I didnt feel pain during or after. I was very impressed with the manner in which she spoke to an explained the procedure to her assistant. She explained the procedure ... Read More
Dr. Oaklander was fantastic. I was very happy that I traveled there for the appointment. She was very thorough. I am not entirely sure what the plan will be following up with her given that I live at a distance, but I was very happy with the care. [redacted]
Dr. Oaklander has been my longest-standing care provider, and I believe I'm one of her longest-standing patients. We have had a consistently positive relationship over the almost 30 years of working together. She is one of the doctors I call a detective doctor, always listening to all of the data that I have to provide and my information, and then ... Read More
Hi, this is [redacted] and Dr. Oaklander is outstanding. She's so smart, she's so patient, and she's so interested in making sure the patient is receiving great care. She's so knowledgeable and experienced, and she has great interest in my current medical conditions and in the doctors that I'll be seeing in the future. It was such a pleasure to ... Read More
MGH: My son and I have a complex case, could be congenital, and we are so grateful Dr. Oaklander is so keenly interested in helping us, especially my son who has suffered greatly, both physically and mentally. He has had a tough long road in what should be the prime of his life, therefore, we have much urgency to solve the issues at-hand! Dr. ... Read More
[redacted] Dr. Oaklander is an outstanding physician and a world's expert in the study and treatment of neuropathy. This is, in fact, why I wanted to see her. She took a great deal of time with me and listened. She also reviewed my records carefully and offered a diagnosis that had been missed by my general practitioner, my neurologist and by a ... Read More
Dr. Oaklander was astute enough to boil my issues down specifically, complex yes.
Dr. Oaklander is a wonderful provider!!
She was excellent. We left plenty of time, but were late because of construction and parking issues. Traffic was crawling