November 9, 2005

The 12th annual Oh Lecture on Neuromuscular Diseases at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) will focus on body myositis, a group of muscle diseases characterized by inflammation and degenerative changes.

Marinos C. Dalakas, M.D., F.A.A.N., chief, neuromuscular disease section of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will present “Advances in Understanding of Inclusion Body Myositis” at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, November 15, in conference room E of the West Pavilion Conference Center, 615 18th Street South.

Dalakas also is a clinical professor of neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Children’s National Medical Center, which is part of the George Washington University School of Medicine, in Washington, D.C.

The Oh Lecture on Neuromuscular Diseases, an endowed lectureship in the UAB Department of Neurology, was established in 1994 by Shin J. Oh, M.D., and M. Kim Oh, M.D., in memory of their daughter, Julie. Shin Oh, UAB professor of neurology and director of the clinical neurophysiology and muscle/nerve histopathology laboratories, is an internationally known figure in neuromuscular disease. Kim Oh, UAB associate professor of pediatrics, works with the adolescent medicine program. Former students and colleagues of Dr. Oh also have contributed to the establishment of the Oh Lecture.