Michael Weiss, MD
Dr. Weiss is a UW professor of neurology, founding director of the division of neuromuscular diseases, director of the EMG Laboratory, and director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic.
He conducts clinical research on the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, inflammatory myopathies, myasthenia gravis, multifocal motor neuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
Dr. Weiss received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and specialty training in neurology at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., and in neuromuscular disease at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He is board certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), with added qualifications in neuromuscular medicine, as well as with the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ABEM). He has authored or co-authored over fifty journal articles, reviews and book chapters primarily focused on neuromuscular diseases. Dr. Weiss is a fellow of both the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association. He is currently an editor of the journal Muscle and Nerve and the chair of the examination committee for the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine.
