Professor of Neurology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University,

Director of Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases,

MDA/ALS Center of Hope

Dr. Heiman-Patterson is Professor of Neurology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University where she is Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and for the MDA/ALS Center of Hope. Her research has focused on ALS and includes both clinical and laboratory interests. She has been principal investigator for more than 30 trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Her clinical research is directed at extending survival and improving the quality of life including application of technologies to enable independence and optimizing respiratory interventions. In the laboratory, Dr. Heiman-Patterson has worked with murine models of ALS to identify genetic modifiers of disease that can be translated to human disease.

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She has authored or co-authored numerous papers, abstracts and book chapters on ALS and related motor neuron diseases. She is president and co-founder of the ALS Hope Foundation, a nonprofit committed to making a difference to people living with ALS, she has served as Co-Chair of the Northeast ALS (NEALS) Consortium and has served on multiple grant review committees including the Congressionally Directed Military Research Program. She is committed to patient care and education actively participating in the Clinical Research Learning Institute to train PALS to be Research Advocates. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association.