Taoufik Alsaadi joins Department of Neurology

Taoufik Alsaadi has joined the faculty of the Department of Neurology as an assistant professor and co-director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program.

Alsaadi attended both the Premedical School and Medical School of Damascus University in Damascus, Syria, where he earned his medical degree in 1989. He was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1999.

Alsaadi has clinical interests in managing patients with seizures of all types, with a special interest in patients with difficult-to-control seizures. He evaluates patients with refractory epilepsy prior to any possible surgical intervention. Alsaadi's work has been honored with several awards, including the Edward E. Shev Award from the Western Clinical Neurophysiology Society in 2001. His research focuses on conducting drug study trials for new anti-epileptic agents in patients with epilepsy.

Alsaadi also has a special interest in utilizing various neuroimaging techniques in studying seizure disorders, particularly MR spectroscopy, MRI and fMRI. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Electroencephalography, Medical Science Monitor and Seizure, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Medical Association, American Epilepsy Society and Western Clinical Neurophysiology Society.