The Australasian Neuromuscular Network (ANN) and Asian and Oceanian Myology Centre (AOMC) Joint Congress.
MAA members Kim Armstrong – Wood and Kerry Maclaurin attended and Kerry has kindly provided the following Conference Report.
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