Zohar Argov

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Dr Argov is Professor ( Emeritus) of Neurology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel . He also serves as a Member of the Neuromuscular Panel at the European Academy of Neurology and an Honorary member of this organization. He was a member of the Executive committee of the World Muscle Society and the European Neurological Society. Prof Argov graduated from the Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School and finished his training in Neurology at the same Institute. He had two fellowships: A WHO Neuromuscular Fellowship at the Muscular Dystrophy Laboratory in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and MDA Fellowship in Biochemistry and Biophysics Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA). His main research and academic fields of interests are: GNE myopathy, clusters of hereditary neuromuscular disorders, iatrogenic neuromuscular disorders and metabolic myopathies. He published 175 papers and 28 chapters mainly in neuromuscular disorders.