Payam Mohassel, MD, FANA
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Payam Mohassel is a physician-scientist who specializes in myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and other hereditary neuromuscular disorders. He is the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center. Dr. Mohassel obtained his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also completed his medical internship, neurology residency, and clinical fellowship training in neuromuscular medicine. He then joined the Neurogenetics Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as a clinical research fellow before returning to the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology as faculty. Dr. Mohassel’s research focuses on translational studies in neurogenetic and neuromuscular disorders, spanning gene discovery, mechanistic studies to identify therapeutic targets, and early-phase interventional clinical trials for rare neuromuscular diseases.