Irfan Sheikh, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Neurology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Joined UT Southwestern: 2023 Clinical Interests: Irfan S. Sheikh, M.D. erves as the Director for the Adult Tuberous Sclerosis program and hopes to establish a comprehensive care clinic for patients with Advanced Genetic Epilepsies in the Dallas area. He is interested in transitional care epilepsy, critical care EEG, and working with quantitive EEG analysis. Research: 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 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in quality improvement. Education Medical School Zhejiang University School of Medicine (2014) Residency University of Toledo (2021), Neurology Fellowship Massachusetts General Hospital (2022), Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Massachusetts General Hospital (2023), Epilepsy Research Interest Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing Critical Care EEG/QEEG EEG/Epilepsy Education Quality Informatics Transitional Care Epilepsy Publications Noise in the diagnosis of epilepsy by experts Nascimento FA, McLaren JR, Zhao W, Katyal R, Sheikh IS, Kong WY, Aljaafari D, Barot N, Benbadis S, Friedman D, Gavvala JR, Halford J, Hogan RE, Kaplan PW, Karakis I, Maheshwari A, Matthews R, O'Donovan C, Rampp S, Schuele S, Sirven J, Tatum WO, Williams J, Yacubian EM, Yuan D, Beniczky S, Sibony O, Westover MB Epileptic Disorders 2026 Apr 28 457-469 Inter-Rater Reliability of EEG-Based Encephalopathy Grading Tesh RA, Zahoor A, Banks J, Gallagher K, Eckhardt CA, Sun H, Karakis I, Katyal R, Williams J, Nayak C, Herlopian A, Ng MC, Greenblatt AS, Meyers E, Westmeijer M, Harrison DS, Ganglberger W, Gheihman G, Fan T, Struck AF, Sheikh IS, Nascimento FA, Westover MB Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2026 Mar 43 237-244 Epilepsy Surgery Education: A Survey of US Epilepsy Fellowship Program Directors Katyal R, Sheikh IS, Gutierrez C, Sinha SR, Day BK, Gavvala JR, Sheth SA, Wirrell E, Beniczky S, Nascimento FA Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2026 Jan 43 Ictal dancing following right temporal seizure onset—Evidence for a distributed network Zhang LY, Garza-Garcia G, Doyle A, Sheikh IS Epileptic Disorders 2026 Podcast-induced reflex seizures: A unique trigger Cao DW, Gonzalez R, Sheikh IS, Mabry MH Epileptic Disorders 2026 Cook4Keto: Bridging culinary expertise and clinical practice to improve adherence to ketogenic diet therapy in drug-refractory epilepsy Castellucci G, Calka A, Pedapati R, Manchala DA, Ivaniuk A, Jesus-Ribeiro J, Sheikh I, Beniczky S Epileptic Disorders 2026 The EEG Talk experience: Lessons in e-teaching EEG Nascimento FA, Yuan D, Sheikh IS, Hirsch LJ, Beniczky S, Westover MB Epileptic Disorders 2025 Dec 27 1337-1339 A foundation model for human-AI collaboration in medical literature mining Wang Z, Cao L, Jin Q, Chan J, Wan N, Afzali B, Cho HJ, Choi CI, Emamverdi M, Gill MK, Kim SH, Li Y, Liu Y, Luo Y, Ong H, Rousseau JF, Sheikh I, Wei JJ, Xu Z, Zallek CM, Kim K, Peng Y, Lu Z, Sun J Nature communications 2025 Dec 16 Typical ictal pattern on MR perfusion scan for patients on the ictal–interictal continuum Huynh Mabry M, Dadhich H, Yetkin Z, Sheikh I Epileptic Disorders 2025 Oct 27 1075-1078 Artificial intelligence in epilepsy education Otu W, Khan MU, Javed HT, Sheikh IS Advanced Neurology 2025 Jul 4 16-28 Results 1-10 of 36 1 2 3 4 Next Last Books Featured Books Seizures. In MGH White Book - Chapter Seizure Peyton MA, Sheikh IS (2023). Honors & Awards Alpha Omega Alpha (2021) Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award (2021) Outstanding Neurology Resident of the Year AwardThe University of Toledo Neurology Residency Program (2021) Professional Associations/Affiliations 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)
