Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Neurology was launched in 1988. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of neurology is divided into 14 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Jean-Marc LégerJean-Marc LégerDr Léger started his career in neurology at the University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière and University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, in 1980, where he trained in general neurology and clinical neurophysiology. He was then nominated as full-time senior neurologist in 1987 in the Department of Neurology, then Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Neurosciences, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, and received his post-graduate degree (Habilitation à diriger des Recherches) from University Paris VI in 1991. He is currently coordinator, together with Dr Eymard, of the National Referral Center for rare Neuromuscular Diseases, that was built up in the IHU de Neurosciences/Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (IHU/ICM), at University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, in 2004. Dr Léger's clinical and research interests are in the field of peripheral neuropathy and in particular chronic immune-mediated neuropathy. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed more than 30 chapters to books on neurology, mainly in the field of diagnostic features and therapeutic trials in vasculitic neuropathy, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, multifocal motor neuropathy and paraproteinaemic neuropathies. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Revue Neurologique for 8 years and as member of the Editorial Board of Brain for 5 years, and is currently member of the Board of the European Journal of Neurology and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System. Dr Léger is past President of the Société Française de Neurologie, in which he served as Secretary General for 8 years. He served as officer of the Management Committee of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) and as chairman of the Training and Education Committee of the EFNS. He is also past member of the Board and member of the Education Committee of the Peripheral Nerve Society, and has organized its biennial meeting in Saint-Malo, France, in July 2013. He is Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN), and Corresponding Fellow of the American Neurological Association. He was elected as Full Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, France, in 2016. Benedikt SchoserBenedikt SchoserBenedikt Schoser started his career with training in muscle pathology by Hans Goebel and finishing his medical thesis at the institute of neuropathology in Mainz, Germany in 1993. He started his career in neurology at the University Hospitals Mainz, Frankfurt, and Hamburg, Germany, in 1993, where he was trained in general neurology, intensive care neurology, psychiatry, and clinical neurophysiology. After spending a year in Thomas Jentsch's laboratory at the institute of neuropathophysiology in Hamburg, he was nominated as full-time senior neurologist in 2001 at the Friedrich-Baur-Institute, Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He received his post-graduate degree (Habilitation) from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 2004. He is currently senior consultant neurologist and co-chair of the Friedrich-Baur-Institute, the major national referral centre for rare neuromuscular diseases in Germany. Dr Schoser's clinical and research interests are in the field of multisystemic neuromuscular diseases and in particular metabolic and myotonic myopathies. He has authored and co-authored more than 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed more than 20 chapters to books on neurology and muscle pathology, mainly in the field of diagnostic features and therapeutic trials in myotonic dystrophies, myasthenic syndromes, metabolic myopathies, and inflammatory myopathies. He serves as member of the Editorial Board of Neuromuscular disorders, Journal of Neuromuscular diseases, and Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie. Dr Schoser is co-founder and chair of the European Pompe consortium (EPOC). He served as co-chair of the Scientific muscle and neuromuscular junction panel of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).