Associate Professor Karra Jones, MD, PhD, was invited for a fifth year in a row to deliver a talk at the 9th Annual University of California, Irvine (UCI) Neuromuscular Pathology Colloquium on May 8, 2025, in Irvine, California.
In her talk, "A Selection of Interesting and Challenging Myopathology Cases," she reviewed the pathologic findings from a group of biopsies from the Duke Muscle Pathology service. These included challenging cases with features suggestive of, or diagnostic of, rare inherited muscle diseases including vacuolar myopathies, myofibrillar myopathies, and others.
Additional speakers included Werner Stenzel, MD, (Charité Hospital, Berlin, Germany), P. James Dyck, MD, (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota), Alan Pestronk, MD, (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri), Ichizo Nishino, MD, PhD, (National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan), and Judith Spies, MBBS, PhD (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia).
Jones is the medical director of Duke’s Clinical Electron Microscopy and Immunochemistry Laboratory. She also serves as section head of Muscle & Nerve Pathology; and as director of the Neuropathology Fellowship Program.