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Office
10 Center Dr
CRC 2-1350
Bethesda, MD 20814
Education & Training
- National Institutes of Health Clinical CenterFellowship, Neuroimmunology & Multiple Sclerosis, 2019 - 2022
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Neurology, 2016 - 2019
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences School of MedicineClass of 2005, MD
- SUNY Downstate Medical CenterphD, Neuroscience
Certifications & Licensure
- MD State Medical License 2019 - 2025
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 845 citationsThe encephalitogenicity of T(H)17 cells is dependent on IL-1- and IL-23-induced production of the cytokine GM-CSF.Mohamed El-Behi, Bogoljub Ciric, Hong Dai, Yaping Yan, Melissa Cullimore
Nature Immunology. 2011-06-01 - 48 citationsSeeding Brain Protein Aggregation by SARS-CoV-2 as a Possible Long-Term Complication of COVID-19 Infection.Omid Tavassoly, Farinaz Safavi, Iman Tavassoly
ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2020-11-04 - 23 citationsDecoding clinical biomarker space of COVID-19: Exploring matrix factorization-based feature selection methods.Farshad Saberi-Movahed, Mahyar Mohammadifard, Adel Mehrpooya, Mohammad Rezaei-Ravari, Kamal Berahmand
Computers in Biology and Medicine. 2022-07-01
Grant Support
- Clinician Scientist Development AwardNMSS-ABF2020–2023
- leon Levy FellowshipLeon Levy Foundation2018–2019
Committees
- Member, AAN research subcommittee 2022 - Present
- Clin NINDS respresentative, Fellow Committee 2019 - Present
- NINDS meber, Clinical Fellow Committee 2019 - Present
Professional Memberships
- Member
- American Neurological AssociationMember
Other Languages
- Farsi
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