Dr. Merit Cudkowicz is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cudkowicz completed medical training at the Health Science and Technology program of Harvard Medical School, and she was a resident in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She obtained a Master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in June, 1996. She was also a fellow in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Clinical Investigator Training Program from 1994 to 1996.

Dr. Cudkowicz co-directs the MGH Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) clinic and the Neurology Clinical Trials Unit (NCTU) at MGH and Partners Healthcare System. She co-directs the Northeast ALS Consortium with Dr. Jeremy Shefner. She is on the medical advisory board for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Massachusetts Chapter of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association.