Dr. Brent Beson, Director MDA Neuromuscular Center

Dr. Brent Beson has been the Medical Director of the MDA Neuromuscular Center, which is located on the campus of INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center (ISMC) since July of 2004. Dr. Beson has a long history with ISMC, and first worked at our institution as a cafeteria grill cook and then radiology transporter from 1991 – 1995. His humble beginning of transporting patients has evolved into providing acute and outpatient medical management for individuals with neuromuscular disease.

He graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine in 1999. His medical adult neurology residency was completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he was elected by his peers to serve as Chief Neurology Resident from 2002 – 2003. He then completed a Fellowship in Neuromuscular Disease and Clinical Neurophysiology at Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Beson has had multiple honors and distinctions throughout his career, and has lectured at numerous appointments throughout the Midwest on the topic of neuromuscular disease.

He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, American Medical Association, Oklahoma Medical Association, and the Oklahoma County Medical Society, and has been an active volunteer since 1991 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).