Early Career Members
Empowering early career members to pursue a career in neuromuscular care and research is vital for raising the future standards of research and care for Canadians affected by neuromuscular diseases. The NMD4C provides resources and opportunities to engage with the network for early career neuromuscular clinicians and researchers.
Blogs from early career members
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Dr. Léa Lescouzère’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Lescouzères is a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Kessen Patten’s lab at the INRS-Institut Armand Frappier in Canada. She is currently working on zebrafish models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with the aim of identifying new physiopathological mechanisms induced by mutations in the C9ORF72 gene, and new therapeutic targets.
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Dr. Marianne Nury’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Marianne Nury is a 2022 NMD4C and MDC clinical fellowship recipient and is currently completing a neuromuscular fellowship at University Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre.
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Dr. Geoff Frost’s Early Career Blog
Human bodies are complex, difficult to understand biological machines. I have been forever fascinated by the mechanics and processes that make us tick. In my previous career as a biomedical engineer, I sought to study and then design processes that could help make machines work. I was always overjoyed when an engineering team could bring together multiple different and seemingly unrelated parts to create a machine that accomplished something wonderous. And there is no greater machine, in my eyes, than the human body.
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Dr. Rebecca Robertson’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Rebecca Robertson is one of the recipients of the NMD4C and MDC postdoctoral research fellowships for 2022. Read her early-career neuromuscular blog!
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Dr. Emanuela Pannia’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Pannia is a recipient of the NMD4C and MDC postdoctoral research fellowship for 2022, where her research will involve determining the molecular mechanisms and environmental modifiers of progressive liver disease in X-linked myotubular myopathy.
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Dr. Matthew Triolo’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Matthew Triolo is a Postdoctoral Fellow working within Dr. Mireille Khacho’s lab in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Matthew first completed his BSc in Kinesiology and Health Science with a Minor in Biology at York University.
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Dr. Ian Smith’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Smith is currently leading multiple translational research projects in a wide variety of neuromuscular conditions at The Ottawa Hospital’s NeuroMuscular Centre to facilitate rare disease diagnosis, develop more effective monitoring of neuromuscular disease progression and treatment response.
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Dr. Gordon Jewett’s Early Career Blog
Dr. Gordon Jewett is a clinician and researcher focused on development of novel disease biomarkers in ALS, based on wearable sensors and machine learning.
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Samar Muslemani’s Blog
“Occupational therapy is where science, creativity, and compassion collide”. This is a quote from Jessica Kensky, a survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and keynote speaker at the 2016 American Occupational Therapy Association welcome ceremony. To me, this quote represents exactly what I love about my profession. Pursuing a PhD allows me to develop these three elements even further…
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Dr. Hebah Qashqari’s Blog
During my pediatric neurology residency training, I was able to dive into different subspecialties of neurology in great detail. I was drawn to the neuromuscular specialty by the significant ongoing advances in understanding the genetics of the neuromuscular disorders and the growing number of novel therapeutic options in the field…
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Dr. Rachel Thompson’s Blog
I came to the neuromuscular disease field completely by chance in 2007 after seeing an advertisement for a research support job in the TREAT-NMD network coordination centre in Newcastle…
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