Leslie Hayes | Medical Services
Specialties
Programs & Services
Languages
- English
Leslie Hayes | Education
Undergraduate School
Georgetown University
2010, Washington, DC
Medical School
Weill Cornell Medical College
2016, New York, NY
Residency
Pediatrics
Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP)
2018, Boston, MA
Residency
Child Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital
2021, Boston, MA
Fellowship
Neuromuscular Medicine
Mass General Brigham
2022, Boston, MA
Leslie Hayes | Certifications
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child and Adolescent Neurology)
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neuromuscular Medicine)
Leslie Hayes | Professional History
Dr. Hayes is an Instructor in Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School specializing in neuromuscular disorders. Clinically, she sees all children with confirmed or suspected neuromuscular disorders. She is passionate about providing comprehensive and collaborative care to these children and supporting their families/caregivers. She performs electrodiagnostic (nerve conduction studies and EMG) testing and neuromuscular ultrasound.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a clinical and research focus of Dr. Hayes'. She sees patients in the multidisciplinary SMA clinic, has experience prescribing all three disease modifying therapies for SMA, and conducts clinical trials in SMA.
Dr. Hayes also has a clinical research focus on congenital myopathies and collaborates with the Beggs Lab in the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children's Hospital. She has a longstanding interest in congenital muscle disorders that began during a research fellowship at the NIH. She studies rare genetic muscle disorders, aiming to understand these disorders in depth, clinically and genetically. She leads natural history studies and interventional clinical trials in congenital myopathies.