Expertise of Anwar Ahmed, MD
- Biography
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Anwar Ahmed, MD, is a highly qualified neurologist and our Medical Director of Neurology whose special interests include movement disorders and tremor analysis in Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders, as well as dystonia. He joined our team in Central Florida from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where he served in multiple leadership roles in the movement disorders and neurological restoration programs and the Huntington Disease Center of Excellence. A graduate of the esteemed Dow Medical College in Pakistan, he completed his neurology residency at Wayne State University’s hospitals in Michigan followed by a fellowship in surgical approaches to movement disorders and motor physiology at Columbia-Presbyterian University Medical Center in New York and a clinical research fellowship in movement disorders at the Cleveland Clinic. His research and published works have focused on such topics as unusual movement disorders, treatment of tremor caused by multiple sclerosis, brain stimulation for movement disorders, and Parkinson’s disease.
- Education
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Dow Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan
- Residency
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Neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Board Certifications
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American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology