Rabi Tawil

Rabi Tawil co-directs the MDA Neuromuscular Disease Clinic at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and is a professor in the department of neurology and the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at URMC. Rabi helped establish a collaborative effort of clinicians and basic researchers that led to a unified understanding of the molecular mechanisms of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). He has also conducted translational research on the non-dystrophic myotonias, the periodic paralyses and other neuromuscular disorders. He is the URMC director of the Richard Fields Center for FSHD Research, and in collaboration with Dr. Jeffrey Statland established the FSHD Clinical Trial Research Network. Rabi is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and holds over a dozen patents in methods related to the study of FSHD. Rabi holds an M.D. from the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine in Beirut, Lebanon and completed his residency in neurology and fellowship in neuromuscular diseases at the University of Rochester Medical Center.