Area of expertise: paediatric neurology, neurogenetics
Languages spoken: English, German
Biography
Heinz Jungbluth has been a consultant paediatric neurologist at Evelina London since 2004, after training in Germany and the UK.
He has more than 30 years of clinical experience and runs specialist clinics for children and adolescents affected by rare neuromuscular and neurological disorders.
His main research interest is in neurogenetics, in particular the genetics of early-onset neuromuscular, neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders.
He works closely with various patient support organisations and is a member of national and international expert consortia concerned with improving patient care and developing therapies for neuromuscular and neurological disease.
- University of Cologne Medical School, 1984 to 1992
- MD, University of Cologne Medical School, 1996
- PhD, Imperial College London, 2004
- Congenital myopathies – clinical and research
- Myasthenic disorders – clinical and research
- (Exertional) myalgia and rhabdomyolysis
- Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility and related neuromuscular disorder
- Muscle imaging
- Neurogenetics
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Neuromuscular disorders due to defects in skeletal muscle calcium homeostasis and excitation-contraction coupling
- Fetal Acetylcholine Receptor Antibody-associated Disorders (FARAD)
- Muscle imaging in neuromuscular disorders
- Congenital disorders of autophagy and intracellular trafficking
- Disease continuum between early-onset neurodevelopmental and adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders
- Ronnie MacKeith Prize of the British Paediatric Neurology Association, 2006
Heinz has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers.
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