Peter B. Kang MD, FAAN, FAAP

Dr. Kang is a pediatric neurologist and physician-scientist whose clinical and research interests focus on neurogenetic disorders, including Cockayne syndrome.  He is Director of the Paul & Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Dr. Kang’s research laboratory focuses on the genetics of limb girdle muscular dystrophy and other pediatric neuromuscular disorders, along with the mechanisms of rare muscle diseases including MEGF10 myopathy, and he has published extensively on these subjects.  His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and the Xtraordinary Joy Foundation.  Among his former trainees, several are faculty members in the United States, Canada, South Korea and Japan.

Dr. Kang is an associate editor of Muscle & Nerve and an editorial board member of two other journals: Neurology and Pediatric Neurology.  He served two terms on the editorial board of Pediatrics.  Prior to his arrival at the University of Minnesota in 2021, Dr. Kang was Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine.  Earlier in his career, he was the Director of the Electromyography Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.