Namita A. Goyal MD

Dr. Namita Goyal is a UCI Health neurologist with board certifications in neurology, electrodiagnostic medicine, and neuromuscular medicine. Her clinical interests include muscular dystrophies, muscle disease, myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and demyelinating neuropathies. She performs a number of diagnostic procedures including adult and pediatric electromyogram (EMG), single-fiber EMG, and muscle biopsies. Dr. Goyal completed a residency in neurology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in electromyography, clinical neurophysiology, and neuromuscular disease at Harvard University’s Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she subsequently served from 2005 to 2012 as a faculty member. She has been on faculty at UC Irvine since 2012 to the present day. She is a principal investigator for several clinical trials involving neuromuscular diseases. In addition to her clinical and research work, she is a mentor to neurology fellows and residents and serves as director of the neuromuscular medicine fellowship program at the UCI School of Medicine's Department of Neurology.