Johanna Hamel, M.D.

Contact Information

Phone Numbers

Appointment: (585) 275-2559

A member of the University of Rochester Medical Faculty Group

An Accountable Health Partner

Accepting New Patients

Locations

University of Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 673
Rochester, NY 14642

Faculty Appointments

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

Patient Care Setting

Neurology

Biography

Professional Background

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.

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.

Credentials

Education

2009
MD | Martin Luther Universitaet Halle Wittenberg (Germany)

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

07/01/2017 - 07/01/2019
Fellowship in Experimental Therapeutics at University of Rochester School of Medicine GME

07/01/2016 - 06/30/2017
Fellowship in Neuromuscular Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center

07/01/2013 - 06/30/2016
Residency in Neurology at University of Rochester Medical Center

06/25/2012 - 06/30/2013
Internship in Internal Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center

02/01/2010 - 05/31/2012
Residency in Neurology at Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin (Germany)

04/01/2007 - 07/14/2009
Medical School at Johannes Gutenberg University Of Mainz-Fachbereich Medizin (Germany)

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Awards

2017 - 2019
Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Muscular Dystrophy
Sponsor: AAN, MDA and ABF

Scholarship for Young Neuroscientists
Sponsor: Stiftung Felgenhauer, German Society of Neurology

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

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Publications

Journal Articles

5/5/2023
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. "Choroid plexus mis-splicing and altered cerebrospinal fluid composition in myotonic dystrophy type 1." Brain : a journal of neurology.. 2023 May 5; Epub 2023 May 05.

3/27/2023
Hamel JI, Logigian EL. "Clinical Spectrum and Prognosis in Patients With Acute Nutritional Axonal Neuropathy." Neurology.. 2023 Mar 27; Epub 2023 Mar 27.

12/1/2022
Hamel JI. "Myotonic Dystrophy." Continuum : lifelong learning in neurology.. 2022 Dec 1; 28(6):1715-1734.

Books & Chapters

2018
Chapter Title: Neuromuscular Diseases: Myasthenia Gravis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Nondystrophic Myotonias, and Muscular Dystrophies
Book Title: Neurological Diseases in Pregnancy
Author List: Hamel, J and Ciafaloni, E.
Published By: Oxford 2018

2015
Chapter Title: Systemic Small Vessel Vasculitis
Book Title: MedLink Neurology
Author List: Hamel, J and Goodman, A.
Published By: MedLink Corporation 2015

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