Medical School / Education
University of Arizona College of Medicine - 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
Doernbecher Children's Hospital Award for Pediatric Research
American Academy of Neurology Clinical Research Training Award
CH Heart & Hand Award for Clinical Excellence, Researcher of the Year
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award
Academic Affiliations
Instructor, Department of Child Health, Arizona State University
Instructor, Neuroscience, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
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)
Rating & Reviews
Dr Kruer was worth the wait to get an appointment. I left feeling great about my son's treatment.
Dr Kruer and the entire staff at the PCH Gilbert Neuro location are just wonderful. We feel very fortunate to have had our son under his care for many years.
Staff was very friendly and doctor was friendly and very helpful.
The entire team was great, especially Dr. Kruer.
Thank you Doctor Kruer and the nurses you guys are are awesome , Thank you
Dr Kruer is great. He is willing to work with other providers to do what is best for my daughter. He is intelligent and compassionate. Not a quality seen in all physicians.
It was very informative and we definitely learned more about what was the problem is and ways to make it better in dealing with it in the future.
Dr. Kruer and team are THE BEST!!
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.