Social Media
The Social Media Committee will be working to increase visibility of WMS on social media. By providing relevant scientific content, sharing, following and engaging on social media channels on behalf of WMS, we hope to raise awareness on the wonderful work that the WMS community is doing. This is an addition to the ‘business as usual’ posts created by the Secretariat. Watch this space for Twitter takeovers, short interviews, and maybe even a podcast in the near future!
Make sure you follow WMS on the social networks:
If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Jordi Diaz-Manera, the chair of this committee.
Chair
Jordi Diaz-Manera
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Matthew Alexander
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, United States
Teerin Liewluck
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, United States
Susan Matesanz
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, United States
Ruchee Patel
NIH/NINDS
Baltimore, United States
Gina Ravenscroft
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and UWA
Perth, Australia
University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne , United Kingdom
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 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.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester , United States
I am a 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
NIH/NINDS, 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.
If you have a query or some suggestions please feel free to contact them to discuss further. For general queries please contact Clare Beach, WMS Secretariat on office@worldmusclesociety.org
