Dr. Mohassel is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University specializing in degenerative and genetic neuromuscular disorders. After completing his clinical internship, neurology residency, and clinical fellowship in neuromuscular disorders at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he then went to the National Institutes of Health. During an 8-year period at the NIH, he trained in research studies in muscle disease, including muscular dystrophies and myositis, and led clinical trials in rare genetic neuromuscular disorders. His clinic specializes in genetic muscles disorders such as muscular dystrophies and congenital myopathies and Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM). He serves as the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center. He is the site PI for three clinical studies in IBM including two interventional clinical trials for this disease at the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center.
