222: An Interview With SMA Expert and Neurologist Dr. Kathryn Swoboda

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Kathryn Swoboda, MD, faculty emerita at Massachusetts General Hospital and a neurologist and rare disease specialist who's been working on SMA for nearly 30 years.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Dutch neurologist Ewout Groen, PhD, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SMA Europe.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Jaime Moore, MD, about weight loss drugs—specifically the role of GLP-1 receptor agonists in treating children with neuromuscular diseases and obesity.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews pediatric psychologist Natalie Truba, PhD, on the psychological aspects of gene therapy in neuromuscular disease.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Donna Shipp, a Boston-area nurse who was misdiagnosed with cancer, underwent surgery and later realized she had IgG4-RD. She now advocates on behalf of others with this rare disease.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Abby Bronson, vice president of patient advocacy at Edgewise Therapeutics, about a new effort to raise awareness of Becker muscular dystrophy as a disease distinct from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Allison Moore, founder and CEO of the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation. Moore was the winner of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's 2026 Donavon Decker Legacy Award for Community Impact in Research.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews John Crowley, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), founder of Amicus Therapeutics, and father of 2 children with Pompe disease.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Hyun Kim, MD, professor of medicine and director of the University of Minnesota's Interstitial Lung Disease Program, about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Andrea Wilson-Woods, founder of Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association—a nonprofit that advocates for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.