W. King Engel
Director, Neuromuscular Center, Good Samaritan Hospital Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Keck School of Medicine Member, USC Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences
Contact at: (213) 743-1612, (213) 743-1614
Expertise:
- neuromuscular diseases
- aging disorders of the neuromuscular system
- Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
- peripheral nerve diseases
- Guillain-Barre syndrome (acute and chronic)
- diabetic neuropathy
- muscular dystrophy, including myotonic dystrophy
- inclusion-body myositis
- polymyositis/ dermatomyositis
- myasthenia gravis (chronic disease marked by abnormal fatiguability and muscle weakness)
- congenital myopathies (muscle diseases)
- boxing and its effects on the brain
- "nerve gas" (anticholinesterase nerve toxins)
- Fellow, American Academy of Neurology and Los Angeles Academy of Medicine
Co-editor of Inclusion-Body Myositis and Myopathies (1998)
Listed in latest edition of The Best Doctors in America: Pacific Region
Foreign Languages:
French
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Biographical information can be found at:
http://keck.usc.edu/profiles?facid=292
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