Leslie Nelson, M.P.T., Ph.D.

Education & Training

Undergraduate School - Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine (1994-1999)
University - Texas A & M University College of Medicine (1994-1999)
University - UT Southwestern Medical School (2001-2003)
Graduate School - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2001-2003), Physical Therapy
Other Post Graduate Training - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2001-2003)

Books & Publications

Books
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Disease Mechanisms and Therapy
  Iannaccone ST, Nelson LN (2017), San Diego, Academic Press
Publications
- Ataluren treatment of patients with nonsense mutation dystrophinopathy.
  Bushby K, Finkel R, Wong B, Barohn R, Campbell C, Comi GP, Connolly AM, Day JW, Flanigan KM, Goemans N, Jones KJ, Mercuri E, Quinlivan R, Renfroe JB, Russman B, Ryan MM, Tulinius M, Voit T, Moore SA, Lee Sweeney H, Abresch RT, Coleman KL, Eagle M, Florence J, Gappmaier E, Glanzman AM, Henricson E, Barth J, Elfring GL, Reha A, Spiegel RJ, O'donnell MW, Peltz SW, Mcdonald CM Muscle & nerve 2014 Oct 50 4 477-87
- Diagnostic approach to the congenital muscular dystrophies.
  Bönnemann CG, Wang CH, Quijano-Roy S, Deconinck N, Bertini E, Ferreiro A, Muntoni F, Sewry C, Béroud C, Mathews KD, Moore SA, Bellini J, Rutkowski A, North KN Neuromuscular disorders : NMD 2014 Apr 24 4 289-311
- Rasch analysis of clinical outcome measures in spinal muscular atrophy.
  Cano SJ, Mayhew A, Glanzman AM, Krosschell KJ, Swoboda KJ, Main M, Steffensen BF, Bérard C, Girardot F, Payan CA, Mercuri E, Mazzone E, Elsheikh B, Florence J, Hynan LS, Iannaccone ST, Nelson LL, Pandya S, Rose M, Scott C, Sadjadi R, Yore MA, Joyce C, Kissel JT Muscle & nerve 2013 Jul
- Consensus statement on standard of care for congenital muscular dystrophies.
  Wang CH, Bonnemann CG, Rutkowski A, Sejersen T, Bellini J, Battista V, Florence JM, Schara U, Schuler PM, Wahbi K, Aloysius A, Bash RO, Béroud C, Bertini E, Bushby K, Cohn RD, Connolly AM, Deconinck N, Desguerre I, Eagle M, Estournet-Mathiaud B, Ferreiro A, Fujak A, Goemans N, Iannaccone ST, Jouinot P, Main M, Melacini P, Mueller-Felber W, Muntoni F, Nelson LL, Rahbek J, Quijano-Roy S, Sewry C, Storhaug K, Simonds A, Tseng B, Vajsar J, Vianello A, Zeller R Journal of child neurology 2010 Dec 25 12 1559-81
- The test of infant motor performance: reliability in spinal muscular atrophy type I.
  Finkel RS, Hynan LS, Glanzman AM, Owens H, Nelson L, Cone SR, Campbell SK, Iannaccone ST Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association 2008 20 3 242-6
- The gross motor function measure is a valid and sensitive outcome measure for spinal muscular atrophy.
  Nelson L, Owens H, Hynan LS, Iannaccone ST Neuromuscular disorders : NMD 2006 Jun 16 6 374-80

Research

pediatric neuromuscular disease

Education & Training

Books & Publications

Research

Physical Therapy