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 (Co-Director, NM Clinical Lab)
  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: Pediatric
  Rebecca Hopfinger: NM Lab
  Amber Malcolm: ALS
Neuromuscular Fellows
  Albert Amran, Naman Bareja,
  Salena Cui, Emily Tillmaand
NM Pathology Fellow
  Grace Tabatabai
NM Laboratory staff: Ruma Banerjee, Julia Sim
  Robyn Reese, Holly Chapman, Gary Mueller
  Lori Worley, Karl Hock, Eunju Kim
  Dongmei Jia, Kristina Schwab, Alicia Lopez
  Alex Ortiz, Whitney Russell-Fry, Morgan Sims
  Tina Chisholm, Becky Plant, Hannah Jordan
  Mariah Hamm, Nicholas Schubert
Trials group: Abby Yenzer, Jennifer Koniak
  Whitney Roper, Oliver Doerr



Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon: September 2010

Images
  Neuromuscular Group
  Neuromuscular Fellows: Present & Past
  Changes

Fellowship



Conferences and Teaching include
  • Neuromuscular Grand Rounds (Monthly)
  • Electrodiagnostic
    • Clinical conference (Al-Lozi; weekly)
    • Basic EMG & Nerve conduction conference (Al-Lozi et al.; weekly)
    • Electrophysiology teaching conference (weekly)
  • Muscle & Nerve Pathology
    • Reading (weekly; Monday afternoons)
    • Teaching & Unknowns (weekly; Wednesday 3:00 pm)
  • Neuromuscular Journal Club (weekly; Friday 12:15 pm),
  • Laboratory meetings (Pestronk; weekly)
Cruikshank



Fellowships are offered in:
  Neuromuscular Medicine
  Neuromuscular pathology
  Neuromuscular Electrodiagnosis
  Research




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

The neuromuscular staff also has a sense of humor.



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3/6/2025