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 and 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 remained for a medical internship, residency training in neurology, and clinical fellowship training in neuromuscular medicine. He then joined the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Neurogenetics branch as a clinical research fellow before returning to Johns Hopkins department of Neurology as faculty. Dr. Mohassel’s research focuses on translational studies in neurogenetic, neuromuscular disorders, and it spans gene discovery efforts, mechanistic studies to identify therapeutic targets, and early phase interventional clinical trials for rare neuromuscular diseases.