Juan M. Pascual is Assistant Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Pediatrics. He is also a Faculty in the Division of Pediatric Neurology. He received his M.D. degree from the Universidad de Granada, Spain. He did his internship in Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine- St. Louis Children’s Hospital and a residency in Pediatric Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York- Columbia University Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine. His Postdoctoral research was done at the Center for Molecular Recognition and, later, at the Colleen Giblin Laboratories, Columbia University. He received certification in Neurology with Special Competence in Child Neurology from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. As a clinician, he specializes in genetic and metabolic diseases of the nervous and neuromuscular systems of infants and children with a particular emphasis on complex diagnostic problems.