Dr. Diane Shelton graduated from University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine followed by an internship at Michigan State University and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a PhD in Comparative Pathology and board certification in internal medicine. Dr. Shelton completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies with an emphasis on experimental and naturally occurring myasthenia gravis. In 1990, she established the Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, an international reference center for spontaneously occurring neuromuscular diseases. Currently she is Director of the CNL and Professor, Department of Pathology at University of California, San Diego.