Fabio Barroso
Argentina

Bio coming soon.

Carsten Bönnemann
USA

Carsten Bönnemann graduated from Medical School at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He trained in pediatrics in Hamburg and Göttingen (where he was awarded the habilitation/venia legendi in pediatrics), and in neurology/child neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston. He did postdoctoral research in genetics and neuromuscular specialty training at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. From 2002 he was on the faculty as Co-Director of the Neuromuscular Program and Director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Clinic at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he continues to be on faculty as Adjunct Full Professor of Neurology. In 2010 he was recruited to the NIH as a tenured Senior Investigator and Chief of the Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section in the Neurogenetics Branch of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Clincal, genomic and translational laboratory work in the Section centers in particular around early onset neuromuscular disorders such as the congenital myopathies and congenital muscular dystrophies and on the development of molecular and gene based treatment approaches to these condition. Dr Bönnemann was a Pew Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences and in 2010 received the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases (JND). He has authored more then 200 papers, reviews and chapters in the field of pediatric neuromuscular and neurogenetic disorders.

Maxwell Damian, PhD, FNCS
UK

Consultant in Neurology and Neurocritical Care at Cambridge University Hospitals and Ipswich Hospital, UK, with subspecialty areas in Muscle Disease, Neurophysiology and Neurocritical Care for clinical work and research. Co-Chair of the Neurocritical Care Panel of the European Academy of Neurology. Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society (USA). Previously worked in Germany and Australia. Born in Hobart, Tasmania. Medical School in Mainz, Germany and London, UK.

Soledad Monges
Argentina

• Pediatric Neurology, Hospital de Pediatría “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan” dedicated to the management of patients with neuromuscular disease, since 2005.
• Coordinator of the study group and treatment of neuromuscular disease at the Hospital de Pediatría “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan” since 2006.
• Exchange Project Ecos-Secyt (2003-2005)Clinical, Genetic, and Morphological Characterization of Congenital Centronuclear and Central Core Myopathies: Phenotype-Genotype Correlation. Institute of Myology, Paris and Hospital de Pediatría “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan”
• Exchange Project MINCYT-MICINN: Genetic characterization of Argentinean Spinal Muscular Atrophy patients.Servicio de Genética Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona and Hospital de Pediatría J.P. Garrahan (ongoing)

Anders Oldfors
Sweden

Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology and Genetics, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, combined with appointment as Senior Consultant in Surgical Pathology, at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Anna Sarkozy
UK

Anna Sarkozy works as a consultant in neuromuscular at the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre in London, UK. Anna has a background in clinical and molecular genetics. In addition to her role as a clinician, Anna has a special research interest in  myopathies and muscular dystrophies with congenital onset and is particularly interested in clarifying phenotypes of new or rare forms of neuromuscular diseases, identifying their genetic causes and elucidating possible genotype-phenotype correlations.

Benedikt Schoser
Germany

Benedikt Schoser started his career at the lab of Hans Goebel in 1990. He was trained in Neurology, Neurological intensive care, palliative medicine, psychiatry, and neurophysiology at the Universities Mainz, Frankfurt, and Hamburg, Germany. He obtained his Habilitation in 2004. He is senior consultant neurologist and co-chair of the Friedrich-Baur- Institute. His research interests are translational therapy of multisystemic neuromuscular diseases.

Werner Stenzel
Germany

Werner Stenzel is Professor of Neuropathology and Neuroimmunology at the Charité University hospital in Berlin, Germany. He is a board certified Neurologist and Neuropathologist with strong interest in muscle patholgy and pathophysiology as well as inflammatory mechanisms of neuromuscular diseases. Werner serves as member of the executive board for WMS.

Peter Van den Bergh
Belgium

Professor of Neurology, Director Neuromuscular Reference Centre, Head EMG Lab, Head Neuromuscular Pathology Lab.

John Vissing
Denmark

Professor John Vissing is Director of the Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center at the National Hospital in Copenhagen. He has authored more than 300 scientific articles on muscle disease, and his research focusses on developing diagnostic tests and treatments for patients with muscle diseases.