Charlotte Sumner
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.)
Charlotte Sumner | |
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 Sumner in 2019, capturing images of brainstem sections from a patient who died of an inherited motoneuron disease.[1] | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (B.A.) Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurology, Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Charlotte Jane Sumner is an American neurologist. She is a professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Sumner cares for patients with genetically mediated neuromuscular diseases and directs a laboratory focused on developing treatments for these diseases. She co-directs the Johns Hopkins Muscular Dystrophy Association Care Center, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) clinics, which deliver multidisciplinary clinical care, engage in international natural history studies, and provide therapeutics.[2]
Dr. Sumner graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1991. She completed a doctor of medicine at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was recognized for her investigative and clinical work with the Dr. O.H. Pepper Award in 1996. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Research Scholar at National Institutes of Health between 1993 and 1994. She was an intern in internal medicine from 1996 to 1997 at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and completed a residency in neurology at UCSF from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2001, she completed a fellowship in neuromuscular disease at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She was a fellow in neurogenetics in Kenneth Fischbeck's lab at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke from 2001 to 2006.[3]
