Dr. John W. Griffin is Professor and Director of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins and Neurologist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is an expert in clinical manifestations and pathology of peripheral nerve. He is an editor of Peripheral Neuropathy, the comprehensive textbook of nerve diseases. He has published over 250 research reports in peripheral nerve disease. He is past president of the Peripheral Nerve Society, past president of the Society for Experimental Neurology, and incoming president of the American Neurological Association. He is on the advisory council of the National Institutes of Neurologic Disease and Stroke, and is the recipient of numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health, including the Jacob Javits Award from the NIH. His special clinical interests include the Guillain-Barré syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy (CIDP), painful neuropathies, diabetic neuropathy. and ataxic neuropathies. Dr. David R. Cornblath is Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine and Director of the Neurology EMG Laboratory at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a co-editor of the book, Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Nerve Disorders. He chairs one of the Institutional Review Board for clinical research studies at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Vinay Chaudhry is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Daniel B. Drachman Neuromuscular Service at Johns Hopkins. He is a widely respected expert in electrophysiology of peripheral nerve disease and has published extensively on toxic nerve injury due to cancer and chemotherapy agents, and the electrophysiologic changes that occur in nerve disease and injury. He leads the Neuromuscular section of the American Academy of Neurology. He has directed the medical student clinical clerkships in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, and is Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology for Outpatient Affairs. Dr. Rothstein is Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine. He is the Director of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins, Co-Director of the MDA/ALS Clinic, and Vice Chairman for Research in the Department of Neurology. His specialization is in Neuromuscular disease, with a particular focus on Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Other clinical areas relevant to his laboratory based research include: idiopathic stupor, epilepsy and motor neuron degeneration. His laboratory research includes: 1) Various molecular mechanisms of selective neurodegeneration in motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 2) Identification of novel drug or peptide therapeutics to delay or prevent motor neuron degeneration in ALS thru the use of cell culture and transgenic models of ALS; 3) Use of neuronal and non-neuronal stem cell therapies to treat motor neurons diseases including ALS and Spinal Muscular Atrophy; 4) Models of motor axon regeneration regrowth; 5) Clinical trials of novel therapeutics in ALS; 6) Basic biology of glutamate transporters and their role in acute and chronic neuronal degeneration (e.g. ALS, epilepsy, stroke, spinocerebellar ataxia); 7) Cloning and characterization of novel proteins. Dr. Thomas Brushart is Professor of Orthopaedics. He is the Director of the Hand Surgery Service at Johns Hopkins and Vice Chairman for Research of the Department of Orthopaedics. He is a widely recognized expert in nerve injury, and has a research program in nerve regeneration and repair. He holds research grants from National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Sunderland Society, a honorary society of leaders in peripheral nerve surgery. His special interests are nerve injuries tiumors and reconstruction to produce functiinal recovery after nerve injury and in chronic nerve disease. Dr. Daniel Drachman is Professor of Neurology Neurology and Neuroscience, and the WW Smith Charitable Foundation Professor of Neuroimmunology. His expertise covers a broad range of areas in Neuromuscular and Neurological diseases. He first described the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with steroids, still the only effective treatment for this disease. He defined the critical role of lack of movement during fetal life as the cause of the most common human congenital disorder- clubfoot - as well as Arthrogryposis, a much rarer form of joint deformity. His special clinical interests include the muscular dystrophies, autoimmune myopathies, Myasthenia Gravis, autoimmune neuropathies, and ALS. Dr. James Campbell is Professor of Neurosurgery. Trained as an MD-PhD, he is an expert on pain in nerve injury. He is a past president of the American Pain Society and a recipient of the prestigious Javits Award from National Institutes of Health. His research in mechanism and treatment of pain in nerve disease is supported by the National Institutes of Health. He is author of more than 200 articles on neuropathic pain. His special clinical interests include...... Dr. Allen Belzberg is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and recognized leader in neurosurgical approaches to nerve injury and repair. He has written extensively about nerve graft techniques to restore function in severe nerve root injuries, and specializes in complex nerve reconstruction. He has also published extensively on mechanisms of neuropathic pain. Dr. Michael Polydefkis is an Assistant Professor of Neurology. Dr. Polydefkis trained in Neurology at Johns Hopkins and was a neuromuscular and electrophysiology fellow. He has worked closely with Dr. Justin McArthur and in the use of skin biopsies to assess peripheral nerve disease, especially painful neuropathies. His primary clinical and research interests are in painful neuropathies and in diabetic neuropathy. His research is support by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Kazim Sheikh, Assistant Professor of Neurology, is a widely recognized expert in the mechanisms underlying the Guillain-Barré syndrome and other immune-mediated disorders of the peripheral nervous system. His laboratory has performed seminal studies of the role of antibodies directed against gangliosides in the development of the Guillain-Barré syndrome. He has published extensively on this subject. His research is supported by National Institutes of Health. His special clinical interests include the Guillain Barre syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Dr. Ahmet Hoke, MD-PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, is a leading experimental investigator in peripheral nerve disease. He has develop new models of toxic nerve injury and the mechanisms for nerve disease in HIV infection. His special clinical interests include ..... Dr. Andrea Corse directs the biopsy service and the Nerve and Muscle pathology laboratories. Dr. Corse is widely recognized for her pathologic studies of nerve and muscle disease. The clinicians in the peripheral nerve center interact closely with the electrodiagnostic laboratories which perform nerve conduction and electrical biographical studies. Dr. Thomas Crawford is Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and co-director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic at Johns Hopkins. He is well recognized for his expertise in peripheral nerve disorders of children from a clinical, pathologic, and electrophysiologic perspective. He is particularly interested in the diagnosis and prospective treatment for children with heritable neuropathy, as well as in characterization and care for children with acute and chronic inflammatory demyelination polyneuropathy (CIDP). Dr. Justin McArthur, Professor of Neurology and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology, directs the Cutaneous Neuropathology laboratory at Johns Hopkins. He pioneered the use of skin biopsies to analyze the small sensory fibers of the peripheral nervous system that are invisible to electrodiagnostic studies and for which nerve biopsy is a limited tool. For many patients this simple technique has supplanted the more involved, uncomfortable, and expensive procedure of nerve biopsy. Dr. McArthur is. In addition to his role in the Cutaneous Neuropathology laboratory, he is a widely known expert on the affects of infectious disorders on the nervous system including the neurologic consequences of HIV infection. His research is supported by the National Institutes of Health and foundations and pharmaceutical companies.
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