Day, John

John W. Day, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Director of the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center
Director of the Muscular Dystrophy Clinic
Director of the Neuromuscular Biopsy Laboratory

Primary Hospital Affiliations: University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare

Year of Appointment: 1992

Medical School: University of Minnesota, 1977

Graduate School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Internship: Internal Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York, 1983

Residency: Neurology, University of California—San Francisco

Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular Disease, University of California—San Francisco

Clinical Interests:

• Muscular Dystrophy
• Myotonic Disorders
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Neuromuscular Disease
• Ataxia
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  

Research Interests:

• Characterization of the pathophysiological bases of inherited and acquired neuromuscular and ataxic disorders, having participated in the identification and genetic characterization of myotonic dystrophy type 2, inherited neuromyotonia, and spinocerebellar ataxia types 5 (SCA5) and 8 (SCA8).
  
• Determination of the utility of stem cell therapies for muscle and neuromuscular diseases
  
• Development of treatment and outcome strategies for muscular dystrophy
  
• Development of novel effective immunomodulatory regimens for acquired inflammatory neuromuscular disease.

Email: johnday@umn.edu