Perry Shieh

Perry Shieh, MD, Ph.D., is a Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received his MD and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed residency training in neurology at Stanford University Hospital and fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology/EMG at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Shieh is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Dr. Shieh lectures both nationally and internationally on topics including chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), treatments for genetic neuromuscular diseases, the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders using next-generation sequencing and emerging therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy. His research has been published in clinical journals such as Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Nature Genetics, and JAMA. Dr. Shieh’s principal clinical interests include Duchene muscular dystrophy (DMD), spinal muscular atrophy, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), myotonic dystrophy, inflammatory myopathy, myasthenia gravis, electromyography, and muscle histopathology. He has served as an investigator in numerous clinical trials for neuromuscular conditions.