Adnan Safdar, MD.
Assistant Professor, Neurology

Academic Appointments

• 2008-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Michigan State University, Neurology

Postdoctoral Training

• 2007-2008: Vascular Neurology Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• 2003-2007: Neurology Residency, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
• 1996: Internal Medicine Observer, VA Hospital, Milwaukee, WI; Queens Hospital, Queens, NY, VA Hospital Brooklyn, NY
• 1994: Surgery House Officer, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
• 1993-1994: Medicine House Officer, District Headquarters Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Education

• MBBS, Rawalpindi Medical College: University of the Punjab, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Graduated 1994

Clinical Interests

• Teaching residents, fellows and medical students
• Taking care of stroke and neurocritical patients

Adnan Safdar, MD, graduated from a medical school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 1994. After his graduation, he joined a family practice group in Pakistan. He then immigrated to the United States in 1996. From 1996 to 2003 he completed research fellowships in Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neurocritical Care. He then completed his Neurology residency from 2003 to 2007 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey. He then completed his Vascular Neurology fellowship in 2008 from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston. His research interest is in the area of stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage.

Research Interests

• 2002-2003: Neurology Research Specialist: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
• 2001-2002: Neurology and Neurosurgery Research Fellow: State University of New York, Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, NY
• 1999-2001: Pathology Research Observer: Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, WI
• 1996-1999: Neurology Research Observer: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Selected Publications

• Qureshi AI, Kirmani, JF, Sayed MA, Safdar A, Ahmed S, Ferguson R, Hershey LA, Qazi KJ; Buffalo Metropolitan Area and Erie County Stroke Study Group. Time to hospital arrival, use of thrombolytics, and in-hospital outcomes in ischemic stroke. Neurology 2005 June 28; 64 (12):2115-20.
• Qureshi AI, Kirmani JF, Sayed MA, Siddiqui AM, Safdar A, Pande RU, Ahmed S, Ferguson R, Hershey LA, Qazi KJ. Buffalo Metropolitan area and Erie county stroke study: rationale, design, and methods. Neuroepidemiology, 01-Nov-2004; 23(6): 289-98.
• Adnan I. Qureshi, Jaward F. Kirmani, Adnan Safdar, Shafiuddin Ahmed, Muhammad A. Sayed, Ravi U. Pande, Richard Ferguson, Linda A. Hershey, Kalid J. Qazi, High Prevalence of Previous Antiplatelet Drug Use in Patients with New or Recurrent Ischemic Stroke: Buffalo Metropolitan Area and Erie County Stroke Study, Pharmacotherapy, 4/2006, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Page: 493-398.
• Eric Searls, Louis R. Caplan, Adnan Safdar, Sandeep Kumar. Vertebral artery origin thrombus in a patient with cerebellar infarct. Archives of Neurology 2008; 65 (10), 1386-1387.
• Lou M, Safdar A, Mehdiratta M, Kumar S, Schlaug G, Caplan L, Searls D, Selim M. The HAT Score: A Simple Grading Scale for Predicting Hemorrhage After Thrombolysis. Neurology 2008; 71: 1417-1423.