Prof Bjarne Udd

Bjarne Udd is a Clinical neurologist with full time neuromuscular research since 1995 Director of the Tampere Neuromuscular Center since 2014. He is a prolific writer of scientific papers (currently 300 or more) with many citations (over 13 thousand), but mostly he is a thoughtful and sensible clinician with a sharp observation spirit. He has described the Udd distal myopathy, an autosomal dominant disease, appearing usually after the age of 35 and affecting predominantly the anterior compartment in legs due to mutations in TTN (Hackman et al 2002). He is a world-class expert in Distal Myopathies, the theme of the webinar.