Moris J. Danon, MD
Dr. Moris J. Danon is a nationally and internationally known neuromuscular disease specialist and nerve and muscle pathologist. In 1981 he described a novel muscle disease that was consequently named after him (Danon disease).
Appointments
Chief of Neurology, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Specialty
Neurology
Subspecialty
EMG/NCS (Electromyography/Nerve Conduction Studies), Nerve and Muscle Pathology, Neuromuscular Diseases
Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
New York State Department of Health Certificate: Laboratory Director for Neuromuscular Pathology
State Licensure
California, Illinois, New York
Education
MD, Graduate University of Istanbul, Turkey
Internship
Queens General Hospital, New York, 1969
Residency
Northwestern Univesity, Neurology, Chicago, Illinois, 1971
St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, Neurology, New York, 1973
Fellowship
Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University, Clinical and Research Fellow in Electromyography, Montreal, Canada, 1974
Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University, Research Fellow in Nerve/Muscle Histopathology and Histochemistry, Montreal, Canada, 1975
Moris J. Danon, MD is the author of the following articles on HSS.edu:
For Professionals
Special Expertise
Study in phase contrast microscopy
Electron microscopy of nerve and muscle
Awards
NIH Contract Grant, 2002
Awaraded NIH grant: Co-investigator with Dr. Arthur Weinstein, 1994
Awarded MDA grant: Co-investigator with Dr. Joseph Etlinger, 1996
Awarded NIH grant: Co-investigator with Dr. A. Omachi, 1978
Awarded PHS-GRSG Grant, 1976
Affiliations
American Academy of Neurology, Fellow
New York Academy of Sciences
Selected Publications
Lamperti C, Danon MJ, Schotland DL, Musumeci O, Slonim A, Krishna S, DiMauro S. Progressive Plyglucosan Deposition in Phophofructokinase Deficient Human Muscle. Muscle and Nerve.
Latov et all (Danon MJ). The Neuropahty Association Medical Advisory Committee. Special Article: Guidelines for the diagnosis of chronic inflammatory demyelination neuropathy. J or periph nerv syst 2003. 8: 282-284.
Raben N, Danon M, Gilbert AL, Dwivedi S, Collins B, Thurberg BL, Mattacuabi RJ, Nagarju K, Plotz PH. Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Mouse Model of Pompe Disease. Molecualr Genetics and Metabolism. 2003; 80:159-169.
Sander HW, Golden M, Danon MJ. Quadriplegic areflexic ICU illness: Selective thick filament loss and normal nerve histology. Muscle and Nerve, 2002; 26:499-505.
Shiselfeld LH, Danon MJ. Relationship of skeletal muscle glycogen from wild type and genetically modified mice to their phosphorylase activity. BBRC 2002; 290:874-877.
For more publications, please see the
PubMed listing.
Languages
Turkish
