Michael C. Kruer MD

Michael Kruer MD is a pediatric movement disorders neurologist and genetics researcher at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, USA. Michael is director of the PCH Cerebral Palsy Program and principal investigator of the Neurogenetics Unit at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. His research uses genomic discoveries to unlock the molecular basis of cerebral palsy and related disorders.

He is a past recipient of a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Shields Award from the Child Neurology Foundation.Dr. Kruer is one of the founders of the Cerebral Palsy Genomics Consortium, an international collaborative effort to understand how genomic changes lead to cerebral palsy. Michael’s work spans clinical care, genomics, and molecular & cellular neurobiology.