Benjamin Rix Brooks MD, FANA, FAAN is Director, Clinical Trials Planning LLC since 2021. He was Director of the Atrium Health [ previously Carolinas Healthcare System ] Carolinas Medical Center Neuroscience Institute Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Neuromuscular / ALS Care Center and ALS Association Certified Treatment Center of Excellence and Professor of Neurology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill - Charlotte Campus from 2008-2020, He was previously Professor of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and Chief Neurology Service, William S Middleton Memorial Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 1982-2008 and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland from 1976-1982. He was a Clinical Associate in the US Public Health Service and Director of ALS Translational Research at the National Institutes of Health from 1974-1976. He is an expert in the development of clinical diagnostic criteria, clinical scales for disease monitoring and clinical translation of drugs, devices and treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.