Leslie Hayes, MD

Dr. Hayes is an Instructor in Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School specializing in neuromuscular disorders. Clinically, she sees all children with confirmed or suspected neuromuscular disorders. She is passionate about providing comprehensive and collaborative care to these children and supporting their families/caregivers. She performs electrodiagnostic (nerve conduction studies and EMG) testing and neuromuscular ultrasound.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a clinical and research focus of Dr. Hayes'. She sees patients in the multidisciplinary SMA clinic, has experience prescribing all three disease modifying therapies for SMA, and conducts clinical trials in SMA.
Dr. Hayes also has a clinical research focus on congenital myopathies and collaborates with the Beggs Lab in the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children's Hospital. She has a longstanding interest in congenital muscle disorders that began during a research fellowship …at the NIH. She studies rare genetic muscle disorders, aiming to understand these disorders in depth, clinically and genetically. She leads natural history studies and interventional clinical trials in congenital myopathies.