Irfan Sheikh, M.D.

Irfan S. Sheikh joined UT Southwestern in 2023. 

His clinical interests include transitional care epilepsy and he serves as the Director for the Adult Tuberous Sclerosis program, critical care EEG and working with quantitive EEG analysis. 

His research interests include EEG/Epilepsy education at the fellow and neurology resident level, QEEG and ICU EEG, and transitional care epilepsy. He also works closely with the Quality Informatics Subcommittee, part of the American Academy of Neurology in exploring and educating members on the use of new technologies such as Aritifical Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in quality improvement.

Dr Sheikh currently serves as the Director of the Adult Tuberous Sclerosis program and hopes to establish a comprehensive care clinic for patients with Advanced Genetic Epilepsies in the Dallas area. 

Medical School

Zhejiang UniversitySchool of Medicine (2014)

Residency

University of Toledo (2021), Neurology

Fellowship

Massachusetts General Hospital (2022), Clinical Neurophysiology

Fellowship

Massachusetts General Hospital (2023), Epilepsy

• Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing
• Critical Care EEG/QEEG
• EEG/Epilepsy Education
• Quality Informatics
• Transitional Care Epilepsy

EEG findings in a pediatric patient with 3q29 microdeletion syndrome

Sheikh IS, Nascimento FA, Waite SR, Lam AD Epileptic Disorders 2024 Feb 26 151-153

Improving Neurology Clinical Care with Natural Language Processing Tools

Ge W, Rice HJ, Sheikh IS, Westover MB, Weathers AL, Jones LK, Moura L Neurology 2023 Nov 101 1010-1018

Evaluating adult care in Dravet syndrome upon transferring from pediatrics in the U.S.: A caregiver-based survey study

Nascimento FA, Hood V, Yap SV, Sheikh IS, Anne Meskis M, Thiele EA Epilepsy and Behavior 2023 Oct 147

Competency-based epilepsy training: A comparison between U.S.-based milestones and ILAE curriculum

Gogou M, Sheikh IS, Tamula OR, Katyal R, Beniczky S, Nascimento FA Epileptic Disorders 2023 Aug 25 586-589

Focal cortical dysplasia IIb: Near-continuous rhythmic fast spike burst pattern on intracranial EEG with atypical electroclinical-clinical semiology

Sheikh IS, Nascimento FA, Misra A, Lang-Orsini M, Cole AJ, Richardson RM, Cash SS Epileptic Disorders 2023 Apr 25 274-277

Implications of stimulus-induced, rhythmic, periodic, or ictal discharges (SIRPIDs) in hospitalized patients

Martinez P, Sheikh I, Westover MB, Zafar SF Frontiers in Neurology 2023 Jan 13

EEG-based grading of immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome

Jones DK, Eckhardt CA, Sun H, Tesh RA, Malik P, Quadri S, Firme MS, van Sleuwen M, Jain A, Fan Z, Jing J, Ge W, Nascimento FA, Sheikh IS, Jacobson C, Frigault M, Kimchi EY, Cash SS, Lee JW, Dietrich J, Westover MB Scientific reports 2022 Dec 12

Roadmap to EEGs: video-based e-learning modules addressing clinical EEG reading

Sheikh IS, Katyal R, Hadjinicolaou A, Nascimento FA, Beniczky S Epileptic Disorders 2022 Dec 24 1132-1138

Introducing the Epileptic Disorders Internship Program

Sheikh IS, Katyal R, Hadjinicolaou A, Beniczky S, Nascimento FA Epileptic Disorders 2022 Dec 24 1139-1140

Competency-based EEG education: a list of “must-know” EEG findings for adult and child neurology residents

Nascimento FA, Jing J, Strowd R, Sheikh IS, Weber D, Gavvala JR, Maheshwari A, Tanner A, Ng M, Vinayan KP, Sinha SR, Yacubian EM, Rao VR, Perry MS, Fountain NB, Karakis I, Wirrell E, Yuan F, Friedman D, Tankisi H, Rampp S, Fasano R, Wilmshurst JM, O’Donovan C, Schomer D, Kaplan PW, Sperling MR, Benbadis S, Westover MB, Beniczky S Epileptic Disorders 2022 Oct 24 979-982

 Featured Books

Seizures. In MGH White Book - Chapter Seizure

Peyton MA, Sheikh IS (2023).

• Alpha Omega Alpha
  (2021)
• Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award
  (2021)
• Outstanding Neurology Resident of the Year Award
  The University of Toledo Neurology Residency Program (2021)

• American Epilepsy Society (2021)
• Epileptic Disorders Journal Internship Program (2022-2023)
• Neurology Minute Podcast - AAN (2023)
• Quality Informatics Subcommittee - American Academy Neurology (2023)
• Young Epilepsy Section - ILAE (2023)