Dr. Verena Samara is a neuromuscular specialist with expertise in EMG/nerve conduction studies with Carson Tahoe Medical Group in Carson City, NV. She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).

Since 90 % of neuromuscular conditions are considered to be rare diseases based on a recent NIH publication, Dr. Samara is helping take care of patients with rare diseases every day. She is striving to be an advocate for patients with rare disease for the population of Nevada and for her individual patients on a daily basis. 

Dr. Samara earned her medical degree in 2008 from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. She went on to pursue a residency in neurology at the University of Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany before moving to the US in 2010 to pursue a research sabbatical. After 3 years of basic science research on spinal cord injury at the University of California, San Diego she returned to being a clinician and pursued a second residency in neurology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City where she graduated in 2017. She then completed a fellowship, specializing in neuromuscular conditions at Stanford University. She has been in practice since 2018.