Jeffrey Statland

Jeffrey Statland is an associate professor of neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), where he coordinates the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) Clinical Trial Research Network. Jeffrey is a renowned FSHD researcher and is a current investigator on studies of FSHD, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular dystrophy and myotonic atrophy. He is particularly interested in developing new disease-relevant outcome measures to assess patient-reported disease burden. Jeffrey is a member of the American Academy of Neurology as well as an ad-hoc reviewer of Neurology and several other academic journals. He received his M.D. from KUMC, where he completed residency in the department of neurology. Jeffrey also completed a fellowship in experimental therapeutics in the department of neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research scholar.