Medical School / Education

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Internship

Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Residency

(Pediatrics) Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Fellowship

(Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Molecular Neurogenetics) Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, Subspecialty-Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

American Board of Psychology & Neurology

Pediatric Movement Disorders

Neurogenetics

Shields Award, Child Neurology Foundation, 2011

Doernbecher Children's Hospital Award for Pediatric Research, 2010

American Academy of Neurology Clinical Research Training Award, 2009

CH Heart & Hand Award for Clinical Excellence, Researcher of the Year, 2021

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award, 2014

Academic Affiliations

Arizona State University

Department of Child Health

University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, Neuroscience

Professional Affiliations

Child Neurology Society

Society for Neuroscience

Movement Disorders Society

American Academy of Neurology

American Society of Human Genetics

American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine

Aravamuthan BR, Fehlings D, Shetty S, Fahey M, Gilbert L, Tilton A, Kruer MC. Variability in Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis. Pediatrics. 2021 Feb;147(2):e2020010066. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-010066. Epub 2021 Jan 5. PMID: 33402528; PMCID: PMC7906070.

Jin SC, Lewis SA, Bakhtiari S, Zeng X, Sierant MC, Shetty S, Nordlie SM, Elie A, Corbett MA, Norton BY, van Eyk CL, Haider S, Guida BS, Magee H, Liu J, Pastore S, Vincent JB, Brunstrom-Hernandez J, Papavasileiou A, Fahey MC, Berry JG, Harper K, Zhou C, Zhang J, Li B, Zhao H, Heim J, Webber DL, Frank MSB, Xia L, Xu Y, Zhu D, Zhang B, Sheth AH, Knight JR, Castaldi C, Tikhonova IR, Lopez-Giraldez F, Keren B, Whalen S, Buratti J, Doummar D, Cho M, Retterer K, Millan F, Wang Y, Waugh JL, Rodan L, Cohen JS, Fatemi A, Lin AE, Phillips JP, Feyma T, MacLennan SC, Vaughan S, Crompton KE, Reid SM, Reddihough DS, Shang Q, Gao C, Novak I, Badawi N, Wilson YA, McIntyre SJ, Mane SM, Wang X, Amor DJ, Zarnescu DC, Lu Q, Xing Q, Zhu C, Bilguvar K, Padilla-Lopez S, Lifton RP, Gecz J, MacLennan AH, Kruer MC. Mutations disrupting neuritogenesis genes confer risk for cerebral palsy. Nat Genet. 2020 Oct;52(10):1046-1056. doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-0695-1. Epub 2020 Sep 28.

Richard EM, Bakhtiari S, Marsh APL, Kaiyrzhanov R, Wagner M, Shetty S, Pagnozzi A, Nordlie SM, Guida BS, Cornejo P, Magee H, Liu J, Norton BY, Webster RI, Worgan L, Hakonarson H, Li J, Guo Y, Jain M, Blesson A, Rodan LH, Abbott MA, Comi A, Cohen JS, Alhaddad B, Meitinger T, Lenz D, Ziegler A, Kotzaeridou U, Brunet T, Chassevent A, Smith-Hicks C, Ekstein J, Weiden T, Hahn A, Zharkinbekova N, Turnpenny P, Tucci A, Yelton M, Horvath R, Gungor S, Hiz S, Oktay Y, Lochmuller H, Zollino M, Morleo M, Marangi G, Nigro V, Torella A, Pinelli M, Amenta S, Husain RA, Grossmann B, Rapp M, Steen C, Marquardt I, Grimmel M, Grasshoff U, Korenke GC, Owczarek-Lipska M, Neidhardt J, Radio FC, Mancini C, Claps Sepulveda DJ, McWalter K, Begtrup A, Crunk A, Guillen Sacoto MJ, Person R, Schnur RE, Mancardi MM, Kreuder F, Striano P, Zara F, Chung WK, Marks WA, van Eyk CL, Webber DL, Corbett MA, Harper K, Berry JG, MacLennan AH, Gecz J, Tartaglia M, Salpietro V, Christodoulou J, Kaslin J, Padilla-Lopez S, Bilguvar K, Munchau A, Ahmed ZM, Hufnagel RB, Fahey MC, Maroofian R, Houlden H, Sticht H, Mane SM, Rad A, Vona B, Jin SC, Haack TB, Makowski C, Hirsch Y, Riazuddin S, Kruer MC. Bi-allelic variants in SPATA5L1 lead to intellectual disability, spastic-dystonic cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and hearing loss. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Oct 7;108(10):2006-2016. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.08.003. PMID: 34626583; PMCID: PMC8546233.

Molecular basis of movement disorders (www.kruerlab.org)

International collaborative study of the genetic basis of cerebral palsy (www.facebook/cpgrn)

Locations

Dr Kruer and his Fellow Dr Pascal are wonderful. They listened and showed concern for my son. Appreciate their expertise and hope that their plan for my son is successful!

We always look forward to seeing Dr. Kruer! He is a wonderful, knowledgeable and nice man.

Dr. Kruer is one of the best doctors! Not only is he knowledgable, but also one of the kindest. We love him!

simply the BEST!!!

Dr. Kruer is absolutely amazing. He spent a lot of time with us explaining every option. He is extremely smart and gave us hope that there is a direction to take to fix the issues my son is having.