A Web site like this that takes questions has to have good people on board who are knowledgeable about the subject at hand. To that end, we have enlisted the help of some physicians that we know, know CMT. They worked with CMT International for years. We thank them for being on call for us and this Web site.
Please know that for some questions there simply will be no answer, we just don't know...yet. For the ones that can be answered, directions to the answer will be put on the What's New button on the first page so you can find it.
Introducing the doctors who answer queries from you for this Web site:

Dr. Greg Carter
Dr. Greg Carter received his medical degree Loyola University of Chicago in 1986. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA. He also earned a Masters degree in Physiology from the University of California, Davis. He was a National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) post doctoral research fellow in 1990-91. He has published extensively in the field of neuromuscular disease (NMD). He currently has grant funding from NIDRR to study the relationship between pain, quality of life, and physical performance in neuromuscular disease.

To send research donations to Dr. Carter:
Charcot-Marie Tooth Research Fund
c/o Providence HealthCare Foundation
914 S. Schuber Rd.
Centralia, WA 98531

Charitable fund 501(c)(3) status
Tax receipts will be issued

Dr. Gareth Parry
Gareth Parry is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota. He received his medical education at the University of Otago in New Zealand, graduating in 1970. He studied internal medicine and cardiology in New Zealand and on the basis of these studies was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physician in 1977. He came to the U.S. in 1976 and completed a neurology residency and neuromuscular fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. For the last 20 years he has pursued his interests in neuromuscular diseases with a focus on neuropathies, particularly inherited neuropathies such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. He has published a number of papers on CMT and contributed to and edited "Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorders: A Handbook for Primary Care Physicians. He serves on the medical advisory board of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association and has been an adviser to Charcot-Marie-Tooth International for several years.

Dr. Stuart Patterson
Dr. Stuart Patterson is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand surgery. He is originally from South Africa and worked in Canada before setting up a practice in Florida. Dr. Patterson attended one of our conventions and saw many people with hand problems. He knows CMT and has written items for us on the possibilities when it comes to surgery and CMT hands and on telling the difference between carpal tunnel syndrome and CMT. We'll have more on Dr. Patterson soon.

Dr. Robert Sampson
Dr. Robert Sampson a born in Fall River, Massachusetts, May 1, 1941. He received his medical degree from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1967. He completed his internship at union University Albany Medical Centre, Albany, New York in 1968. He completed a general surgery residency at Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA in 1971 and an orthopedic residency at the University of California at San Francisco, in 1976. Since 1976 he has practiced in a pediatric orthopedic clinic in California and been a partner at an orthopedic and fracture clinic in Oregon. He completed additional foot and ankle training at Shriners Hospital, in Massachusetts in 1991 and is board certified in orthopedic surgery.
Dr. Sampson also has CMT and is now semi-retired but still very active in the many things that hold his interest.

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky
Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, MD, PhD, FRCP (C)
Associate Professor of Medicine
4U4 Dept. of Neurology
McMaster University Medical Centre,
1200 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3Z5

For consults, EMG - Neuromuscular clinic
McMaster University Medical Centre
Attn: Dale Johnston, Clinic Co-ordinator Tel: (905)521-2100
Ext. 77933
Referrals can be faxed to: (905)521-2656

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1962 and has lived most of his life
in Hamilton, Ontario . After his MD, he did a PhD in cell biology and metabolism and then completed residency training for the next five years in internal medicine, neurology and physical medicine and rehabilitation at McMaster University in Hamilton Canada and in Rochester NY. He joined the Department of Medicine at McMaster in 1996 in the Division of Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His practice focuses on diagnosis, comprehensive medical care and therapeutics of neuromuscular and neurometabolic disorders. His research interests include; basic research into mitochondrial adaptation, muscle apoptosis, gender differences in metabolism, and muscle adaptations to stress and applied research into compounds that may increase muscle strength and function in patients with neuromuscular and neurometabolic disorders. Research into CMT has included experimental therapeutics and the effects of exercise in
CMT. Future trials will be examining the interactive effects of strength exercise and anabolic compounds in CMT.