Neurology / Adult

Specialists in the Department of Neurology see patients in the areas of adult neurology, rehabilitation, and pediatric neurology.

General adult neurology services are offered along with treatment and/or rehabilitation for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury, movement disorders, sleep problems, aging and dementia, neuromuscular and cerebrovascular disease.

Pediatric patients are seen for general neurology, stroke, movement disorders and epilepsy, in addition to neuro-rehabilitation services and epilepsy monitoring.

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Muhammad Taher Al-Lozi, MD

Specialty Areas
Neurology - Adult
ALS - Lou Gehrig's Disease
Myasthenia Gravis
Electromyography
Nerve Disorders
Muscle Disorders
Muscular Dystrophy
Neuromuscular Disease

Areas of Clinical Interest
Clinical neuromuscular diseases, myopathy, peripheral neuropathies, neurological paraneoplastic syndromes; research: immune myopathy, neuromuscular disease, electromyography, electrodiagnostic studies,, nerve disorders, ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease, muscle disorders, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis.

AAN Certification in Muscle Pathology

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Honors and Awards

Listed in Best Doctors in America, (Best Doctors, Inc), 2007 - 2010

The Sven Eliasson Award for Teaching excellence, Washington University at Saint Louis, Department of Neurology, 2005-2006

The Sven Eliasson Award for Teaching excellence, Washington University at Saint Louis, Department of Neurology, 2004-2005

Clinical Teacher of the Year Award, Washington University School of Medicine, 2003

The Sven Eliasson Award for Teaching Excellence, Washington University at Saint Louis; Department of Neurology, 1995-1996

Tom Preziosi Award for Clinical Excellence; Johns Hopkins Hospitals - Neurology Residency Program, 1991

King Hussein Award – highest ranked internal medicine resident in three year program (Master degree); University of Jordan, 1985

Journal Articles

LopateG, Baloh RH, Al-Lozi MT, MillerTM, Filho JA, Ni O, Leston A, Florence J, Schierbecker J, Allred P. Familial ALS with extreme phenotypic variability due to the I113T SOD1 mutation. Amyotroph.Lateral.Scler. 2009:1-5

Gitcho MA, Baloh RH, Chakraverty S, Mayo K, Norton JB, Levitch D, Hatanpaa KJ, White CL 3rd, Bgio EH, Caselli R, Baker M, Al-Lozi MT, Morris JC, Pestronk A, Rademakers R, Goate AM, Cairns NJ. TDP-43 A315% mutation in familial motor neuron disease. Ann Neurol 2008; 63:535-538

Armstrong TN, Dale AM, Al-Lozi MT, Franzblau A, Evanoff BA. Median and ulnar nerve conduction studies at the wrist: Criterion validity of the NC-Stat Automated Device. J Occup Environ Med. 2008; 50:758-764

Pestronk A, Kos K, Lopate G, Al-Lozi M. Brachio-Cervical Inflammatory Myopathy: Proximal arm weakness and myositis with B-cell foci. Arthritis and Rheumatism 2006, In press

Strom RG, Derdeyn CMAP, Moran CJ, Cross, DT, Esper GJ, Mazumdar A, Al-Lozi M, Lopate G, Pestronk A. Frequency of Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation in Patients with Unexplained myelopathy. Neurology 2006, In Press

Lopate G, Pestronk A, Al-Lozi, M, Lynch T, Florence J, Miller T, Levine T, Rampy T, Beson B, Ramneantu I. Peripheral Neuropathy in an Outpatient Cohort of Patients with Sjögren’s Syndrome. Muscle Nerve 2006, In Press

Levine T, Pestronk A, Florence J, Al-Lozi, MT, Lopate G, Miller T, Ramneantu I, Waheed W, Stambuk M, Stone MJ, Choski R. Peripheral Neuropathies in Waldenström’s macroglobulinaemia. JNNP 2006;77:224-8

North East ALS Consortium. The Use Of Statistical MUNE In A Multicenter Clinical Trial. Muscle Nerve 2004;30:473-469

Pestronk A, Florence J, Levine T, Al-Lozi MT, Lopate G, Miller T, Ramneantu I, Waheed W, Stambuk M. Sensory exam with quantitative tuning fork: rapid, sensitive and predictive of SNAP amplitude. Neurology 2004;62:461-4

Lopate G, Pestronk A, Al-Lozi M. Treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy with high-dose intermittent intravenous methylprednisolone. Arch Neurol 2005; Feb;62(2):249-54

Pestronk A, Florence J, Miller T, Choksi R, Al-Lozi MT, Levine TD.
Treatment of IgM antibody associated polyneuropathies using rituximab.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Apr;74(4):485-9.

Pestronk A, Choksi R, Logigian E, Al-Lozi MT. Sensory neuropathy with monoclonal IgM binding to a trisulfated heparin disaccharide. Muscle Nerve. 2003 Feb;27(2):188-95.

Miller T, Al-Lozi MT, Lopate G, Pestronk A. Myopathy with antibodies to the signal recognition particle: clinical and pathological features. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2002 Oct;73(4):420-8.

Kovach MJ, Waggoner B, Leal SM, Gelber D, Khardori R, Levenstien MA, Shanks CA, Gregg G, Al-Lozi MT, Miller T, Rakowicz W, Lopate G, Florence J, Glosser G, Simmons Z, Morris JC, Whyte MP, Pestronk A, Kimonis VE. Clinical delineation and localization to chromosome 9p13.3-p12 of a unique dominant disorder in four families: Hereditary inclusion body myopathy, Paget disease of bone, and frontotemporal dementia. Mol Genet Metab 2001; Dec;74(4):458-75

Nevo Y, et al. Mutation analysis in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Pediatr Neurol 1999; Jul;21(1):456-9

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Muhammad Taher Al-Lozi, MD