Dr. Lan Zhou, MD

Dr. Lan Zhou is Neurologist-in-Chief and Chair of the Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel Department of Neurology at Hospital for Special Surgery. She specializes in the care and treatment of patients with neuromuscular diseases and regularly performs and interprets nerve, muscle, and skin biopsies as part of her practice. She has special interests in small fiber neuropathy, inflammatory myopathy, myasthenia gravis, and neuromuscular pathology. Dr. Zhou is a nationally renowned neuromuscular specialist with a long history of clinical and academic accomplishments. She earned her medical degree from Shanghai Medical University School of Medicine in China (now Fudan University Medical Center) in 1989 before completing her PhD in developmental biology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1995. Previously, Dr. Zhou served as a staff neurologist at Cleveland Clinic, an associate professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and pathology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a …professor of neurology and pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and a professor of neurology and pathology and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Zhou is recognized as an outstanding educator and runs a National Institutes of Health�funded research program to study muscle inflammation, fibrosis, and regeneration associated with acute and chronic skeletal muscle injuries and repair. She has mentored many fellows, residents, and medical students to conduct clinical and basic research. Her research team has published extensively in the biomedical journals. She has given many invited talks and lectures nationally and internationally.