Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
Dr. Shelton graduated from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1979 followed by an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Michigan State University and a residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to UC Davis in 1982 where she completed a PhD in Comparative Pathology and achieved board certification in internal medicine. Following her graduate studies, she was a post-doctoral fellow from 1986-1990 at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA in the laboratory of Dr. Jon Lindstrom, with an emphasis on experimental and naturally occurring myasthenia gravis. In 1990, Dr. Shelton established the Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory (CNL) in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), an international reference center for the study of spontaneously occurring neuromuscular diseases in companion animals. Currently she is Director of the CNL and Professor, Department of Pathology at UCSD. Dr. Shelton has published over 260 scientific papers and book chapters on muscle and peripheral nerve diseases relevant to both animals and humans.
Neuromuscular Diseases Over 40 years: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM ET
