The University of Toledo

Faculty - Noor A. Pirzada, M.D.

Professor Program Director, Neurology Residency Director, EMG laboratory   SPECIAL INTERESTS  Myasthenia Gravis Entrapment Neuropathies Inflammatory Myopathies Neuromuscular complications in the ICU -Botulinum toxin therapy Novel techniques for educating medical students and residents EDUCATION M.D.: Government Medical College, Kashmir, India, 1980 Medicine Residency: Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania, 1991-1992 Neurology Residency: Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992-1995. Fellowship: EMG/Neuromuscular Disease, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1995-1996.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor: Medical University of Ohio, 2001 - present
Assistant Professor: Medical University of Ohio, 1996 - 2001

CERTIFICATIONS

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1996
American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, 1997
Added qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology, 1997

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy of Neurology
American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine

TEACHING AWARDS

Selected as Outstanding Neurology Attending by MUO Neurology Residents, June 2003

Golden Apple teaching award, Medical University of Ohio, June 2003
Golden Apple teaching award, Medical University of Ohio, June 2002
Golden Apple teaching award, Medical University of Ohio, June 2001
Golden Apple teaching award, Medical University of Ohio, June 2000
Golden Apple teaching award, Medical University of Ohio, June 1999

A.B. Baker national teaching award. Awarded by the American Academy of Neurology,
May 2002

Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, 1998

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Pirzada NA, Morgenlander J: Neuropathy in Chronic Renal Failure. Postgraduate Medicine, October 1997, 102(4):249-261.

Ali I, Pirzada N. "Neurological complications associated with dialysis and chronic renal insufficiency," In Principles and practice of Dialysis. Hayes L., Ed. Williams and Wilkins Co. Baltimore. Second Edition.

Pirzada N, Ali I, Dafer R. "Fluorouracil induced neurotoxicity". Ann Pharmacother 2000.

Pirzada N, Medel M, Ali I. "Colchcine neuromyopathy in a patient with normal renal junction". Jr. Clincal Rheumatology 2001: 7:374-376.