Leigh Ramos-Platt, MD, a pediatric neurologist with special qualifications in child neurology and clinical neurophysiology, recently joined St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. She will also serve as vice chair of Pediatrics.
Dr. Ramos-Platt came East from The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, bringing her expertise in genetic therapy and other treatments for Duchenne and Spinal Muscular Atrophy, both genetic diseases that cause progressive muscle weakness.
“I’m excited to come to this progressive, growing and friendly system with a goal of working with expert teams to help improve quality of life in pediatric patients who suffer from these and other neurologic conditions, which can be either genetic or acquired,” said Dr. Ramos-Platt, who lives in Bethlehem…