My research is original and focusses on Pediatric Neuromuscular diseases. It spans four principle categories: 1) Pediatric Myasthenia- a national collaborative study; 2) The genetic basis of muscular dystrophies - in collaboration with geneticists in Europe, Australia, and South America; 3) Novel cardiac evaluation techniques in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and normal controls; 4) Clinical trials in Duchenne muscular dystrophy