Robert M. Pascuzzi

The Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology on Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission, Robert M. Pascuzzi, M.D., truly needs no introduction. He was the Guest Editor of the first issue of Seminars in Neurology for 2004 on Myasthenia Gravis and graciously agreed to put together this issue to review the other disorders of neuromuscular transmission. I will repeat Bob's credentials below that were included in the issue on Myasthenia Gravis, in case the readers of this issue did not see that issue. The only change I have made is that Bob was named Outstanding Professor in Clinical Medicine by this year's graduating class, bringing the grand total to 14 honors in this category, and he is now Chairman of Neurology at Indiana University.

Bob did a Fellowship in neuromuscular disease at the University of Virginia with Larry Phillips and T.R. Johns. Bob returned to his alma mater, Indiana University, in 1985 and is presently the Interim Chair of Neurology in the Department of Neurology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has been chosen Outstanding Professor in Clinical Medicine by 14 graduating classes, and has received the Golden Apple award from the Medical School Class of 1996 and the Medical School Class of 2003. He has also received the Distinguished Neurology Teaching Award from the American Neurological Association and a Teaching Excellence Recognition Award from the Indiana University Board of Trustees on several occasions. He is named in both America's Top Doctors and in Best Doctors in America.

Dr. Pascuzzi is a Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a member of the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for Neurology, and a member of the Annual Meeting Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. He is Secretary of M/SAB of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation, Chair of the Professional and Public Information Committee of the MAB of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation, and on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Myasthenia Gravis Foundation.

Dr. Pascuzzi teaches the Sophomore neuroscience course, and the medical students at Indiana University frequently say they want to be Neurologists because neurology encompasses medicine, literature, sports, history, and suspense. At Freshman orientation the upperclassmen tell the Freshmen that they should never miss a lecture of Dr. Pascuzzi's, and the lecture hall is always packed, even those that take place at 8:00 am. He is a legend in his own time. He is the master teacher and clinician. He is also a wonderful husband and father.

The contributors to this issue of Seminars in Neurology are well known for their tremendous advancement of knowledge in the areas they have written about. We are terribly grateful to them for their hard work and the sacrifice of their time to share this information with us.