Abrar Al-Faraj, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Title Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Office Shapiro Building, 725 Albany St., 7th floor, Boston, MA 02118
- Phone 617-638-8456
- Education Medical School: Arabian Gulf University College of Medicine (Kingdom of Bahrain) – 2010
Internship: University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo University, OH – 2013-2014
Residency: Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University – 2014-2017
Fellowship: Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School – 2017- 2019
Board certification: Neurology, Epilepsy
Special interest: Women’s health with epilepsy, management of refractory epilepsy and ICU EEG monitoring.
Publications:
Al-Faraj AO, Pandey S, Herlihy MM, Pang TD. Factors affecting breastfeeding in women with epilepsy. Epilepsia [Internet]. 2021;62(9):2171–9. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/epi.17003.
Al-Faraj AO, Pandey S, Herlihy MM, Pang TD. Factors affecting breastfeeding in women with epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2021 Jul 21. doi: 10.1111/epi.17003. Epub ahead of print.
Lin L, Al-Faraj A, Ayub N, Bravo P, Das S, Ferlini L, Karakis I, Lee JW, Mukerji SS, Newey CR, Pathmanathan J, Abdennadher M, Casassa C, Gaspard N, Goldenholz DM, Gilmore EJ, Jing J, Kim JA, Kimchi EY, Ladha HS, Tobochnik S, Zafar S, Hirsch LJ, Westover MB, Shafi MM. Electroencephalographic Abnormalities are Common in COVID-19 and are Associated with Outcomes. Ann Neurol. 2021 May;89(5):872-883. doi: 10.1002/ana.26060. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
Anand P, Al-Faraj A, Sader E, Dashkoff J, Abdennadher M, Murugesan R, Cervantes-Arslanian AM, Daneshmand A. Seizure as the presenting symptom of COVID-19: A retrospective case series. Epilepsy Behav. 2020 Nov;112:107335. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107335. Epub 2020 Jul 21.
- Divisions
- Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders