MichaelSCartwrightMD, MS

Summary

• Dr. Cartwright is a Professor in the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, NC. He also holds appointments in the School’s Family and Community Medicine Department (Sports Medicine), Center for Worker’s Health, and Translational Science Institute. He has a Masters in Health Science Research, and clinical and research expertise in neuromuscular diseases. He is the co-editor of the textbook “Neuromuscular Ultrasound,” editor of “Neuromuscular Medicine: An Outline of High-yield Topics,” and has published extensively on the topic of neuromuscular disease. He has published greater than 100 peer-reviewed papers and is a reviewer for 25 journals, including The Lancet, Nature Reviews Neurology, Neurology and The New England Journal of Medicine. He has received funding for neuromuscular ultrasound research from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and the NIH National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke. He is the Director of the Wake Forest Neuromuscular Fellowship, the MDA Clinics (pediatrics and adults), and sees patients in the Wake Forest ALS Clinic, the EMG laboratory, and general neuromuscular clinic. He has clinical expertise in neuropathy, myopathy, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, SMA, ALS, Guillain-Barre syndrome, and CIDP.