Madina Tugizova, MD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Dr. Madina Tugizova is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is board-certified in neurology and neuromuscular medicine. She provides care to patients in the adult neuromuscular clinic, and she performs electromyography (EMG), nerve conduction studies, and skin biopsies. She is co-director of UCSF's Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Care Center.

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Her research background is in genetics and immunology. During medical school, she completed the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship. She has also received training in clinical research design at UCSF. Dr. Tugizova is an investigator on ongoing clinical trials for neuromuscular diseases.

Dr. Tugizova enjoys teaching medical students, neurology residents, and neuromuscular fellows. She received the Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award for UCSF Teaching Faculty in 2024.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Neuromuscular Medicine University of California, San Francisco 06/2023
• Residency Neurology Stanford University 06/2021
• MD Medicine Stanford University 06/2017
• MA Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Stanford University 06/2012
• BS Biology Stanford University 06/2011

Interests

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• Myasthenia Gravis
• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy
• Medical Education
• Myotonia Congenita
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
• Myotonic Dystrophy
• Multifocal Motor Neuropathy
• Electromyography (EMG)

Publications (10)

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Hearing Loss, ConductiveHearing Loss, SensorineuralMultiprotein ComplexesDendritesAquaporin 4Caenorhabditis elegansSynapsesProtein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Non-ReceptorCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsVaccinationMyelin-Oligodendrocyte GlycoproteinNeuromyelitis OpticaIntercellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsWnt ProteinsOptic Neuritis

• Severe Adult-Onset Non-Dystrophic Myotonia With Apnea and Laryngospasm Due to Digenic Inheritance of SCN4A and CLCN1 Variants: A Case Report.
  Neurology. Genetics 2024 Tugizova M, Margeta M, Richie M, Pet D, Rosow L, Terrelonge M, Ralph JW
• MBL-1 and EEL-1 affect the splicing and protein levels of MEC-3 to control dendrite complexity.
  PLoS genetics 2023 Xie J, Zou W, Tugizova M, Shen K, Wang X
• Reply to Letter to the Editor: Atypical Optic Neuritis After COVID-19 Vaccination: Response.
  Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 2022 Tugizova M, Siegel DT, Huang S, Su E, Subramanian PS, Beres S, Vora N
• Case Series: Atypical Optic Neuritis After COVID-19 Vaccination.
  Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 2022 Tugizova M, Siegel DT, Huang S, Su E, Subramanian PS, Beres S, Vora N
• New Therapeutic Landscape in Neuromyelitis Optica.
  Current treatment options in neurology 2021 Tugizova M, Vlahovic L, Tomczak A, Wetzel NS, Han MH

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• Case series: Hearing loss in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders.
  Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2020 Tugizova M, Feng H, Tomczak A, Steenerson K, Han M
• A case of GFAP-astroglial autoimmunity presenting with reversible parkinsonism.
  Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2019 Tomczak A, Su E, Tugizova M, Carlson AM, Kipp LB, Feng H, Han MH
• A multi-protein receptor-ligand complex underlies combinatorial dendrite guidance choices in C. elegans.
  eLife 2016 Zou W, Shen A, Dong X, Tugizova M, Xiang YK, Shen K
• MTM-6, a phosphoinositide phosphatase, is required to promote synapse formation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  PloS one 2014 Ericson VR, Spilker KA, Tugizova MS, Shen K
• Caenorhabditis elegans Muscleblind homolog mbl-1 functions in neurons to regulate synapse formation.
  Neural development 2012 Spilker KA, Wang GJ, Tugizova MS, Shen K