Perry Shieh, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received his MD and his PhD in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed residency training in neurology at Stanford University Hospital and fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology/EMG at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Dr. Shieh’s principal clinical interests include Duchene muscular dystrophy (DMD), spinal muscular atrophy, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), myotonic dystrophy, inflammatory myopathy, myasthenia gravis, electromyography, and muscle histopathology. And he has served as an investigator in numerous clinical trials for neuromuscular conditions.