Perry Shieh, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Neurologist at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He previously served as the director of the Neuromuscular Division and the program director of the Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship Training Program at UCLA. He received his MD and his PhD in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland after which 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 muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, inflammatory myopathy, and myasthenia gravis. He has served as an investigator in numerous clinical trials for neuromuscular conditions and has a particular interest in Gene Therapy.