Faculty - Noor A. Pirzada, M.D.
Program Director, Neurology Residency 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听
Director, EMG laboratory
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
Diabetic Neuropathy
Botulinum toxin therapy
Novel techniques for educating medical students and Neurology residents
EDUCATION听
Residency:听Internal Medicine - Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania, 1991-1992
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Neurology- Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1992-1995
Fellowship:听EMG/Neuromuscular Disease, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina,
1995-1996听 听听
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Toledo, 2001-2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Toledo, 1996 - 2001
CERTIFICATIONS
Neurology - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 1996, Recertified, 2005, 2015
EMG - American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine 1997, Recertified 2007, 2017
Clinical Neurophysiology - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 1997, Recertified
2017
Vascular Neurology - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 2008, Recertified
2017
Neuromuscular Medicine - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 2008, Recertified
2017
Headache Medicine - United Council of Neurologic Subspecialties 2012
Epilepsy - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 2013
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN)
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
National
Vice Chairman, ABPN (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology), 2016
ABPN Board of Directors, 2008-2016
ABPN Neurology Council, 2008-2016
Chair, ABPN Neurology Part A Examination Committee, 2011 鈥� 2015
Vice Chair, ABPN Neuromuscular Medicine Certification and MOC Examination Committee,
2013-2016
Member, ABPN Neuromuscular Medicine Certification and MOC Examination Committee, 2013-
Present
Chair, ABPN Vascular Neurology Steering Committee, 2011 鈥� 2016
Chair, ABPN Credentialing Committee, 2013 鈥� 2015
Examiner for the ABPN Oral Board Examination, 2002鈥�2011
Member ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ) Neurology Milestone
Writing Committee, 2012-2013
Member ACGME Neurophysiology Milestone Writing Committee, 2013-2014
Member of AAN (American Academy of Neurology) Grievance committee, 2015 鈥� 2019
Member of AAN MRS (Member Research Subcommittee), 2015- 2018
Member AANEM ( American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine)
Training Program Examination Committee, 2005-2008
Institutional
Delegated Credentialing Committee, University of Toledo 2008-2010
Executive Curriculum Committee, Medical University of Ohio 2006
Curriculum Subcommittee for Medical Students years 3 and 4, 2000
Selection Committee for Deans Teaching Award, Medical University of Ohio 1999, 2004
Graduate Medical Education Committee, Medical University of Ohio 1998鈥揚resent听
TEACHING AWARDS
National
American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Program Directors Consortium Recognition Award
2010
A. B. Baker national teaching award, awarded by the American Academy of Neurology
(AAN) 2002
Visiting Professor of Neurologic Education to the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN 2005
Institutional
Dean鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Education, University of Toledo, College of Medicine
and Life Sciences 2012Robert T Tidrick Golden Apple Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence
in Clinical Sciences, University of Toledo 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
Selected as Outstanding Neurology Attending Physician by Neurology Residents 2003,
2009, 2013, 2015
Sylvania School Mentor Appreciation Award 2001-2002
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Medical College of Ohio 1998听
selected PUBLICATIONS
听L.R. Faulkner, D. Juul, R.M. Pascuzzi, M.J. Aminoff, P.K. Crumrine, S.T. DeKosky, R.F. Jozefowicz, J.M. Massey, N. Pirzada, A. Tilton. Trends in American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology specialties and Neurologic Subspecialties Neurology. 2010 ;75(12):1110-7
Koffman B, Greenfield J, Ali I , Pirzada N. Neurologic complications after surgery for obesity Muscle Nerve 33:166-176 2006
Pirzada N, Medel M, Ali I. Colchicine neuromyopathy in a patient with normal renal function. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 2001:7:374-376
Pirzada N, Ali I. 鈥淎n interesting case of central pontine myelinolysis鈥�. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2001;76:559-562
Pirzada N, Ali I, Dafer R. 鈥淔luorouracil induced neurotoxicity鈥�. Ann Pharmacother 2000;34:35-38听
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