Melanie B. Alarcio, MD(H), FMAPS

Melanie Alarcio, MD is a pediatric neurologist at AZ NeuroRecovery Treatment Innovation Center (ANTIC). She provides comprehensive care for patients, especially children, suffering from neurologic disorders, such as, seizures, neuromuscular disorders, sleep problems, headaches, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, learning disabilities, concussions, and many other neurologic conditions. She has special interest in concussion and the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology and autoimmune encephalopathies like PANDAS, limbic, Hashimoto's and NMDA-receptor antibody encephalopathy. She received her medical degree from University of the East College of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency in the Philippines, becoming a Fellow of the Philippine Pediatric Society and an International Fellow of the American Board of Pediatrics. She then finished a second pediatric residency at King Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles and went on to complete her child neurology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Most recently, she has also become a Board-certified (AANWP) homeopathic practitioner.

She is an active member of the Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation, International Child Neurology Association. Child Neurology Society, American Academy of Neurology, and National Association of Environmental Medicine. She is, in fact, a member of the Behavioral Neurology Section of the AAN. She is a Fellow of the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs, and in November 2018, was hand-selected to be a board member of the Interdisciplinary Board of Functional Neurology. She currently practices in Mesa AZ at the AZ Neurorecovery Treatment Innovation Center.