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Posted on November 8, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The 13th annual Oh Lecture on Neuromuscular Diseases at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) will focus on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Stanley H. Appel, M.D., one of the leading ALS researchers in the world and chair of the Department of Neurology at The Methodist Hospital Neurological Institute in Houston, will present “Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: Novel Directions in ALS Research”, at 8 a.m., Tues., Nov. 14, in conference room E of the West Pavilion Conference Center, 615 18th St. South.
Appel is also the Peggy and Gary Edwards Distinguished Endowed Chair for the Treatment and Research of ALS at Methodist Hospital Neurological Institute. He holds a professorship in neurology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
The Oh Lecture on Neuromuscular Diseases, an endowed lectureship in the UAB Department of Neurology, was established in 1994 by Shin J. Oh, M.D., and M. Kim Oh, M.D., in memory of their daughter, Julie. Shin Oh, UAB professor of neurology and director of the clinical neurophysiology and muscle/nerve histopathology laboratories, is an internationally known figure in neuromuscular disease. Kim Oh, UAB associate professor of pediatrics, works with the adolescent medicine program. Former students and colleagues of Dr. Oh also have contributed to the establishment of the Oh Lecture. For more information please call (205) 934-2120