Nizam Ahmed

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About

Education and Training

• MBBS/MD, Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan (Gold Medalist)
• Internship in Internal Medicine, New York Medical College, USA
• Neurology Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
• Fellowship in Epilepsy and Neurophysiology, Yale University School of Medicine

Academic and Administrative Appointments

• Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
• Medical Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Lab., University of Alberta
• Visiting Faculty, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi Pakistan

National Leadership

• Past President, Canadian League Against Epilepsy, CLAE (2012 – 2014)
• Director of Education, CLAE (2008 – 2012)

Research

Research Areas

• Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery
• Electroencephalography
• Biological Signal Processing
• Machine Learning applied to EEG and MRI

Research Projects

• Computer Assisted Diagnosis of Epileptogenic Lesions on the MRI of Brain
• Machine Learning and Signal Processing of the EEG signal
• Telemedicine and Telehealth
  

Ahmed S.N.

Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 2021 March; 8 10.3389/frobt.2021.617426