Rigid Spine Syndrome

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Christopher Zallek is a Neurologist and a Neuroradiologist practicing medicine in Peoria, Illinois. Dr. Zallek is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 5 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myasthenia Gravis, Peripheral Neuropathy, Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3. Dr. Zallek is board certified in American Board Of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology.

Conrad Weihl is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. Weihl is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 9 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, Inclusion Body Myositis, Cytoplasmic Body Myopathy, and Myositis. Dr. Weihl is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology Neurology and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology Neuromuscular Medicine.

Dr. Jayaraman graduated magna cum laude with an undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard College in 2008. She then joined the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program, where she received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2017. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2019. Her training in child neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. After completing child neurology residency in 2022, she stayed at Boston Children’s Hospital as a clinical and research neurology fellow, conducting research in the lab of Dr. Alan Beggs on the genetics of inherited muscle disorders, while also seeing patients with neuromuscular disorders in clinic and working as a spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) clinical trial sub-investigator with Dr. Basil T. Darras at Boston Children’s Hospital. Finally, she completed a clinical fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography (EMG) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2024. She is a diplomate of the ABPN in Child Neurology.Dr. Jayaraman’s clinical expertise and practice focuses on neuromuscular disorders of infancy, childhood and adolescence, including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, myasthenia gravis, inherited and acquired myopathies and neuropathies, as well as general pediatric neurology. Dr. Jayaraman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. She is also highly rated in 6 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Rigid Spine Syndrome, Schizencephaly, Periventricular Heterotopia, and Microcephaly. Dr. Jayaraman is currently accepting new patients.