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

TEACHING AWARDS

 Papers:

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

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

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


Book Chapters:

Pirzada N. Myasthenia Gravis. In The 5 minute Neurology Consult. Lynn DJ, Newton HB, Rae-Grant AD eds. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Philadelphia 2012

The Neurology Examination. Pirzada N. and Pascuzzi R. in ABPN, past present and Future- 75th anniversary edition, American Psychiatric publishing 2011