Dr. Hamel is Assistant Professor of Neurology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular diseases. Dr. Hamel cares for patients with acquired and hereditary neuromuscular diseases in clinic, with special expertise in myotonic dystrophy (DM) type 1 and type 2 and FSHD. She also performs electrodiagnostic studies in the EMG lab and teaches residents in neuromuscular diseases. She graduated from medical school at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, worked as a neurology resident and researcher at the Charité in Berlin before completing neurology residency and a clinical neuromuscular fellowship at the University of Rochester.

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Neurology, NMD (SMD)

Assistant Professor - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SMD) - Joint

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Fellowship, Experimental Therapeutics, University of Rochester School of Medicine GME. 2017 - 2019

Fellowship, Neuromuscular Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2016 - 2017

Residency, Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2013 - 2016

Internship, Internal Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2012 - 2013

Residency, Neurology, Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin (Germany). 2010 - 2012

Medical School, Johannes Gutenberg University Of Mainz-Fachbereich Medizin (Germany). 2007 - 2009

Education

MD | Martin Luther Universitaet Halle Wittenberg (Germany). 2009

Awards

Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Muscular Dystrophy. 2017 - 2019

Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award, Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award.

Scholarship for Young Neuroscientists.

Research

Dr. Hamel completed the experimental therapeutics research training fellowship at the University of Rochester. Her research is focused on advancing our understanding of the underlying molecular mechanism in myotonic dystrophy type 1 and type 2. She also studies the progression of disease and evaluates clinical outcome measures and biomarkers. She is involved in several clinical trials and studies involving muscle diseases, with focus on DM and FSHD.

Publications

Journal Articles

Choroid plexus mis-splicing and altered cerebrospinal fluid composition in myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Nutter CA, Kidd BM, Carter HA, Hamel JI, Mackie PM, Kumbkarni N, Davenport ML, Tuyn DM, Gopinath A, Creigh PD, Sznajder ?J, Wang ET, Ranum LPW, Khoshbouei H, Day JW, Sampson JB, Prokop S, Swanson MS

Brain : a journal of neurology.. 2023 May 5 Epub 05/05/2023.

Clinical Spectrum and Prognosis in Patients With Acute Nutritional Axonal Neuropathy.

Hamel JI, Logigian EL

Neurology.. 2023 March 27 Epub 03/27/2023.

Myotonic Dystrophy.

Hamel JI

Continuum : lifelong learning in neurology.. 2022 December 128 (6):1715-1734. Epub 1900 01 01.

Milestones of progression in myotonic dystrophy type 1 and type 2.

Hamel JI, McDermott MP, Hilbert JE, Martens WB, Luebbe E, Tawil R, Moxley RT, Thornton CA

Muscle & nerve.. 2022 July 1 Epub 07/01/2022.

Benefits of aerobic exercise in myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Mackenzie SJ, Hamel J, Thornton CA

The Journal of clinical investigation.. 2022 May 16132 (10)Epub 1900 01 01.

Remote Assessment of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: A Feasibility Study.

Hamel J, Creigh PD, Dekdebrun J, Eichinger K, Thornton CA

Muscle & nerve.. 2022 April 15 Epub 04/15/2022.

Case Studies on the Genetic and Clinical Diagnosis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy.

Hamel J, Tawil R

Neurologic clinics.. 2020 August 38 (3):529-540. Epub 1900 01 01.

MRI Correlates with Electrical Impedance Myography in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy.

Hamel J, Lee P, Glenn MD, Burka T, Choi IY, Friedman S, Shaw D, McCalley A, Herbelin L, Dimachkie MM, Lemmers R, van der Maarel SM, Barohn RJ, Tawil R, Statland JM

Muscle & nerve.. 2019 December 29 Epub 12/29/2019.

Patient-Reported Symptoms in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (PRISM-FSHD).

Hamel J, Johnson N, Tawil R, Martens WB, Dilek N, McDermott MP, Heatwole C

Neurology.. 2019 September 1793 (12):e1180-e1192. Epub 08/13/2019.

Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy: Update on Pathogenesis and Future Treatments.

Hamel J, Tawil R

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics.. 2018 October 15 (4):863-871. Epub 1900 01 01.

The prognosis of electrodiagnosis.

Hamel J, Logigian EL

Muscle & nerve.. 2018 August 58 (2):178-181. Epub 06/13/2018.

Factors associated with distal symmetric polyneuropathies in adult Zambians: A cross-sectional, observational study of the role of HIV, non-antiretroviral medication exposures, and nutrition.

Kvalsund M, Chidumayo T, Hamel J, Herrmann D, Heimburger D, Peltier A, Birbeck G