Biography

  • Attending Physician, Division of Neurology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Medical Director, Mazza Foundation Neuromuscular Program, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Director, Muscular Dystrophy Association Care Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Education and Background

  • Fellowship in Clinical Electromyography, Mayo Medical School 1982
  • Fellowship in Child Neurology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine 1977-1980
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital 1975-1977
  • MD, Boston University School of Medicine 1975

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