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Officers of the Peripheral Nerve Society

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Ms. Amber Millen

PNS Executive Secretary

Department of Anesthesiology (Mail Code 0629)

University of California, San Diego

Medical Teaching Facility, Room 445

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093-0629 U.S.A.

 

Phone: +1 858 534 3865

Fax: +1 858 534 1445

email: amillen@ucsd.edu

History of the Peripheral Nerve Society

The Peripheral Nerve Society was founded in 1994 as an amalgamation of the Peripheral Nerve Study Group and the Peripheral Neuropathy Association. The Society sponsors scientific meetings on a periodic basis. The Society has a membership and executive office at 1501 Guggenheim Building, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. The Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System is the official journal of the Society. The major purpose of the meeting is to promote discussions between basic and clinical investigators from all fields of peripheral neuropathy research. The 1999 meeting had painful neuropathies as its plenary lecture theme, and the 2001 meeting had inflammatory neuropathies as a theme, but abstracts for platform or extended poster presentations on any aspect of peripheral nerve research were encouraged. Ample time is given to poster presentations and extended group and individual discussions on peripheral nerve science.

The Peripheral Nerve Study Group (PNSG) had its origins in a meeting organized by A.K. Asbury in Carville, Louisiana, in 1974. The success of the meeting led to the formation of the Peripheral Nerve Club, later changing its name to the PNSG, to bring together clinicians and basic scientists interested in peripheral neuropathy and the neurobiology of peripheral nerve. Meetings were held every two years. The Executive Committee consisted of all those who had organized meetings. The PNSG became affiliated with the Research Group on Neuromuscular Diseases (RGND) of the World Federation of Neurology and the members of the Executive Committee of the PNSG were ex-officio members of the Executive Committee of the RGND, responsible for organizing the quadrennial International Congresses on Neuromuscular Diseases.

The Peripheral Neuropathy Association of America was formed in 1983 with the intention of sponsoring meetings devoted to areas of development in the field of peripheral nerve disease. In 1990 the Board of the Association voted to change the name to the Peripheral Neuropathy Association (PNA).