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 Cornell Medical College

Specialty

Neurology

Subspecialty

EMG/NCS (Electromyography/Nerve Conduction Studies)
Nerve and Muscle Pathology
Neuromuscular Diseases

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

Languages

Turkish

Education

MD, Graduate University of Istanbul, Turkey

Internship

Queens General Hospital, New York, 1969

Residency

Northwestern University, 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

Certification

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
New York State Department of Health Certificate: Laboratory Director for Neuromuscular Pathology

State Licensure

New York, Illinois, California  

Moris J. Danon, MD is the author of the following articles on HSS.edu:

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 MJ, 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.