Professor of Neuromuscular Diseases, Translational Medicine and Genetics
Jordi Diaz Manera, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Neuromuscular, Translational Medicine and Genetics at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant in Genetics at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Jordi did the undergraduate studies in Medicine in Universitat Rovira I Virigili in Tarragona (Spain) and was trained from 2001 to 2005 in Neurology at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP) in Barcelona. After the neurology training, he did a fellowship in Neuromuscular Diseases at the same hospital funded by the Spanish Society of Neurology. Jordi became an associate member of the Neurology department of HSCSP in 2006 working in the Neuromuscular Diseases Unit where he was mainly responsible of the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with inherited and acquired myopathies.
His clinical research activities are mainly focused on the implementation of muscle to characterize the phenotype of patients with different neuromuscular diseases and also to quantify diseases progression. In this sense, he has published several papers describing the patterns of muscle involvement in many different diseases including limb girdle muscular dystrophies, Pompe disease or neuropathies. Moreover, he has also used different MRI techniques to study disease progression, including Dixon, DTI, magnetization transfer or T2. Jordi is especially interested in correlating clinical and radiological data as well as understanding how MRI can identify the changes that are taking place in the tissue.