John T. Kissel, M.D. Dr. John Kissel is currently Professor of Neurology and Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He was educated at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, where he did both his undergraduate and medical school training. He graduated from medical school in 1978, and did a year of internal medicine residency at Ohio State University. He did his residency at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by one year of clinical neuromuscular fellowship and two years of research fellowship at The Ohio State University. He has been on the staff at The Ohio State University since 1985 in the Division of Neuromuscular Diseases, and has been vice-chair since 2001. He is also co-director of the Muscular Dystrophy Clinic, as well as the ALS Clinic.

Biographical Sketch

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Kissel received his BA from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 1974 and his MD from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois in 1978. He completed residency programs in medicine and neurology from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio and Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri in 1979 and 1982.

Research

Dr. Kissel has published extensively in a wide range of peripheral nerve, muscle, and anterior horn cell disorders. His particular interests include facioscapulohumerol muscular dystrophy, and clinical trials in the various muscular dystrophies and inflammatory myopathies. He has also participated in clinical trials for the involving the inflammatory neuropathies, anterior horn cell diseases (including spinal muscular atrophy), and myasthenia gravis. He is the co-author of a popular textbook of peripheral nerve disease, “Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Nerve Disorders”, and has written chapters for many of the standard neuromuscular textbooks. He is president-elect of the neuromuscular section of the American Academy of Neurology, a Fellow in the American Academy of Neurology, and a member of the American Neurological Association.

Clinical Interests

neuromuscular diseases

National Offices Held and Service to Professional Organizations

AAN Neuromuscular Section	Councillor 1998-
Muscular Dystrophy Association	Medical Advisory Council 1998-
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America	Medical/Scientific Advisory Board 2000-
Neuromuscular Section	President-elect 2001-
American Academy of Neurology
Families of SMA Lay organization	Medical Advisory Board 1997-
American Academy of Neurology	Science Committee 1998-

Publications (Selected)

Mendell JR, Kissel JT, Cornblath DR. The Diagnosis and Mangement of Peripheral Nerve Disorders. Philadelphia, FA Davis, 2001.
 
Collins MP, Kissel JT. Vasculitis of the peripheral nervous system. In: Noseworthy J, Dyck PJ, eds. Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice. London, Martin Dunitz Ltd. (2003)
 
Kissel JT, Franklin GM. Myasthenia gravis: a victim of its own success. Neurology; 2000;55:3-4.

Novak V, Freimer ML, Kissel JT, Sahenk Z, Periquet IM, Nash SM, Collins MP, Mendell JR. Autonomic impairment in painful neuropathy. Neurology 2001;56:861-8.

Kissel JT, McDermott MP, Mendell JR, King WM, Pandya S, Griggs RC, Tawil R, and the FSH-DY group. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of albuterol in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy. Neurology 2001;57:1434-9.

The Muscle Study Group. Ramdomized pilot trial of ?INF1a (Avonex) in patients with inclusion body myositis. Neurology 2001;57:1566-70.

Kissel JT. The problem of fibromyalgia. Muscle & Nerve 2002;25:473-6.

Kissel JT. Misunderstandings, misperceptions and mistakes in the management of the inflammatory myopathies. Sem Neurol 2002;22:41-52.

Tsao C-Y, Mendell JR, Kissel JT. Dermatomyositis in two siblings and a brief review of familial dermatomysositis. J Child Neurology 2002;17:540-1.

Contact

461 Means Hall
1654 Upham Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Phone: 614-293-4981
Fax: 614-293-6111

e-mail: kissel.2@osu.edu