University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne , United Kingdom

Children's of Alabama, Birmingham , United States

Matthew Alexander is Associate Professor and serves as the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) Education Chair. His laboratory focuses on identifying novel epigenetic and genetic regulators of human neuromuscular diseases and generating novel zebrafish models of disease for drug screening purposes.

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth , Australia

I am a molecular geneticist with special interest in adult and late-onset myopathies.

Mayo Clinic, Rochester , United States

I am an Associate Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic-Rochester with a special interest in muscle diseases and muscle pathology. My recent research interest has been focusing on: 1) epidemiology and natural history of inclusion body myositis and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, 2) amyloid myopathy with and without systemic amyloidosis, 3) sarcoid myopathy and other granulomatous myopathies, 4) immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myopathy and 5) immune-mediated rippling muscle disease.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia , United States

I completed my pediatrics and pediatric neurology residencies at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and then completed a neuromuscular fellowship at CHOP in 2020. I then stayed on at CHOP as faculty, and see patients in our multi-disciplinary neuromuscular clinic

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore , United States

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and UWA, Perth , Australia

I would welcome more active involvement with the WMS. The society needs greate representation by women at the Executive/Leadership level and could do more to grow and develop emerging/junior researchers. There is a lot of financial support and the training course is wonderful but more could be done around mentoring, career development.