Neuromuscular Disease Center
Overview & Personnel



NEUROMUSCULAR
  DISEASE CENTER


Laboratory testing
Website
CONTACT INFORMATION

Neuromuscular Laboratory
517 South Euclid Avenue
MSC 8111-9-204
Saint Louis, MO 63110

Phones
  General: 314-362-6981
  NM Lab: 314-362-2406
Fax numbers
  General: 314-362-3752
  NM laboratory: 314-362-3413
Web site
  https://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/


NEUROMUSCULAR CLINICAL LABORATORY



NEUROMUSCULAR PERSONNEL

Faculty
  Chris Weihl (Director, Neuromuscular Section)
  Muhammad Al-Lozi (Director, Electrodiagnostics)
  Craig Zaidman (Director, Pediatric NM): Web Site
  Robert Bucelli
  Andrew Findlay
  Stefanie Geisler
  Renatta Knox
  Erin Langton
  Cindy Ly
  Tim Miller: Web Site, ALS Center
  Joshua Newman
  Alan Pestronk (Director, NM Clinical Lab)
  Charles Roach
  Sean Smith
  Manouela Valtcheva
  Arun Varadhachary
Nurse Practitioners
  Natalie Goedeker
  Rebecca Hopfinger
  Amber Malcolm
Fellows
  William Everett, Warda Faridi
  Anita Rau, Christine Meadows
NM Laboratory staff: Ruma Banerjee, Julia Sim
    Robyn Reese, Holly Chapman, Gary Mueller
    Lori Worley, Karl Hock, Eunju Kim, Emily Haar
    Dongmei Jia, Kristina Schwab, David Maciak
    Kathleen Murphey, Whitney Roper, Becky Plant
    Tina Chisholm, Tiffani Briggs, Darcy Mahoney
Trials group: Abby Yenzer
  Whitney Roper, Oliver Doerr, Jennifer Koniak



MDA Telethon: September 2010

Images
  Neuromuscular Group
  Former Neuromuscular Fellows
  Changes

Fellowship



Conferences and Teaching include
  • Clinic patient review (weekly)
  • Clinical rounds (4 times weekly);
  • Electrodiagnostic
    • Clinical conference (Al-Lozi; weekly)
    • Basic EMG & Nerve conduction conference (Al-Lozi et al.; weekly)
    • Electrophysiology teaching conference (weekly)
  • Muscle and Nerve biopsy
    • Reading (weekly; Saturday mornings)
    • Teaching & Unknowns (weekly; Wednesday 3:00 pm)
  • Neuromuscular Journal Club (weekly; Friday 12:15 pm),
  • Laboratory meetings (Pestronk; weekly); (Basic group; 2x/month)
Cruikshank



Fellowships in neuromuscular diseases, electrodiagnosis and research are provided.




Guidelines for Autoantibody Testing:
Motor Syndromes
Anti-Sulfatide Antibodies
Anti-MAG Antibodies

The staff of the neuromuscular division also has a sense of humor.



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12/4/2023