
St. Luke's Medical Group
Zaheer Ahmed, M.D.
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About
Zaheer Ahmed, MD, is board certified in neurology, clinical neurophysiology and sleep medicine at Neurology & Neurosurgery. Dr. Ahmed completed his residency in neurology at Oregon Health Sciences University and a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Vanderbilt University. He is also the former medical director at the rehabilitation care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Dr. Ahmed diagnosis and treats a variety of neurological conditions including headaches, epilepsy, dementia, multiple sclerosis, movement disorders, myopathy, neuropathy, myasthenia gravis, ALS, as well as other conditions. Dr. Ahmed is experienced in performing nerve conduction studies, electromyography (EMG), interpretation of electroencephalogram (EEG) and botulinum toxin therapy. He believes that the best patient-doctor relationships are partnerships and provides excellent patient care by actively listening and working together to provide individualized treatment plans.
He offers services in English, Hindi and Urdu.
Gender
- Male
Languages
- Hindi
- Urdu
Affiliations
- St. Luke's Hospital
- St. Luke's Medical Group
Conditions Treated
- Acute neuralgia
- Acute stroke
- Advanced comprehensive neurology
- AIDS, neurological complications
- Angelman syndrome
- Aphasia
- Apraxia of speech
- Ataxia
- Auditory brainstem response, evaluation
- Autism
- Autism and pervasive development disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Autonomic dysfunction
- Autonomic nervous system disorders
- Baclofen pump management
- Balance disorders
- Bilevel positive airway pressure titration
- Brain
- Brain cysts
- Brain infections
- Brain injury
- Brain injury rehabilitation
- Brain mapping
- Brain tumor, benign
- Brain tumor, cellular biology of
- Brain tumor, malignant
- Brain tumor, migraine and
- Brain tumor, molecular biology of
- Brain tumor, pediatric
- Brain tumor, vision problems
- Brain-computer interface
- Central nervous system, malignancies
- Central nervous system, visual disorders
- Cerebellar disorders
- Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
- Cerebral angiography
- Cerebral autoregulation
- Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Cerebrovascular disease, minimally invasive
- Cerebrovascular insufficiency
- Chronic regional pain syndrome
- Deep brain stimulation
- Demyelinating diseases
- Developmental neurogenetic disorders
- Diagnosis, spinal disorders
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy monitoring
- Epilepsy, and cognition
- Epilepsy, and pregnancy
- Epilepsy, in children
- Epilepsy, in women
- Epilepsy, pathology
- Epilepsy, treatment-resistant
- Epileptogenesis/seizure prediction
- Essential tremor
- Evoked potentials
- Facet injections/medial branch blocks
- Focal neuropathies
- Frontal lobe/executive dysfunction
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Functional neuroimaging
- Functional neurosurgery
- Gaucher's disease
- Giant cell arteritis (GCA)
- Glioblastoma
- Glioma
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Head shape abnormalities
- Head trauma
- Headache
- Headache, refractory
- Hemifacial spasm
- Hemorrhagic hypotension, resuscitation of
- Huntington's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Hypopituitarism
- Immunotherapy, for lymphoma
- In home sleep apnea screening testing
- Inflammatory diseases of brain
- inflammatory neurological diseases
- Insomnia
- Insulin Pump Therapy
- Intellectual assessment
- Intensive care, neurologic
- Interventional spine procedures
- Intervertebral disc disease
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Intracranial aneurysms
- Intracranial angioplasty
- Intracranial atherosclerotic disease
- Intracranial pressure monitoring
- Intracranial pressure wave form analysis
- Intracranial stent placement
- Intracranial surgery, minimally invasive
- Intracranial vascular malformation
- Ischemic stroke
- Leukodystrophy
- Leukodystrophy, pediatric
- Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS)
- Lumbar puncture
- Lyme disease
- Malignant tumors, brain
- Medication-related tremor
- Memory and cognition
- Memory disorders
- Memory loss
- Meningioma
- Meningitis
- Methohexital suppression testing
- Migraine headache
- Mild cognitive impairment
- Motor neuron disease
- Mouth cancer
- Movement Disorder Society
- Movement disorders
- Movement disorders surgery
- Movement disorders, cognitive function
- Movement disorders, fragile X associated
- Multiple sclerosis
- Multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis
- Multiple sclerosis, neuro-visual complications
- Multiple system atrophy
- Muscular dystrophy
- Mutism, selective
- Myelin biology and white matter disease
- Narcolepsy
- Nerve biopsy
- Nerve disease, peripheral
- Nerve disorder of the foot and ankle
- Nerve entrapment
- Nerve injuries
- Nerve injury, peripheral
- Nerve injury-related pain
- Nervous system, effects of lymphoma on
- Neurilemmoma
- Neuro - Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Neuro AIDS
- Neuro anesthesia
- Neuro MR
- Neuro projection
- Neuro-behavioral syndromes
- Neuro-Behcet's
- Neurocritical care
- Neurocutaneous Syndrome
- Neurodegeneration
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Neurodegenerative disorders, imaging
- Neuroendocrine cancer
- Neuroendocrine disorders
- Neuroendocrine tumor
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroendocrinology problems
- Neuro-endoscopy
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neurofibromatosis, clinical variability
- Neurogenetic disease
- Neurogenetics
- Neurogenic tumor
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroimmunology
- Neurointensive care
- Neurologic complications
- Neurologic complications of cancer
- Neurologic complications of pregnancy
- Neurologic disease-related pain
- Neurologic emergencies, neurocritical care
- Neurologic illness, with a special interest in stroke
- Neurologic injuries
- Neurologic intensive care
- Neurologic rehabilitation
- Neurologic trauma
- Neurological and psychiatric illness interface
- Neurological complications of cancer therapy
- Neurological critical care
- Neurological disease, medical aspects of
- Neurological eye disorder
- Neurological facial spastic disorders (blepharospasm)
- Neurological infection
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Neurologic-related pain
- Neurology
- Neurology and cancer
- Neurology of infectious diseases
- Neurology of infectious diseases, including HIV
- Neurology of medical disease
- Neurology of pregnancy
- Neurology of psychiatric disease
- Neurology of systemic and multisystem diseases
- Neurology, general
- Neurology, general adult
- Neuromodulation
- Neuromonitoring
- Neuromuscular Disease (ALS)
- Neuromuscular disorder of adult
- Neuromuscular transmission
- Neuromyelitis optica
- Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (NCL; Batten disease)
- Neuronal signaling mechanism
- Neuro-oncology
- Neuro-oncology, pediatric
- Neuro-oncology, pediatric/adult
- Neuro-ophthalmologic disease
- Neuro-ophthalmology
- Neuropathic pain
- Neuropathic pain, central and peripheral
- Neuropathy
- Neuropathy, peripheral
- Neuropathy, peripheral entrapment
- Neurophysiological monitoring
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroprotection
- Neuropsychiatric disorder
- Neuropsychiatry
- Neuropsychological evaluation
- Neuropsychological, psychiatric
- Neuropsychology
- Neurorheumatology
- Neurosarcoidosis
- Neuroscience
- Neurosonology
- Neuro-urology
- Neurovisual disorder
- Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
- Non-Operative Management of Spine Disorders
- Non-Operative Spine Care and Rehabilitation
- Norplant Removal
- Nystagmus
- Occipital Nerve Block and Trigger Point Injection
- Ocular motility disorder
- Olfactory disorder
- Optic nerve disease
- Optic neuritis
- Organic brain syndrome
- Pain following spinal cord and nerve injury
- Painful bladder syndrome
- Pallidotomy
- Paralytic disorders
- Paraneoplastic diseases of brain
- Parkinsonism
- Parkinson's disease
- Parkinson's disease surgery
- Parkinson's plus syndrome
- Parsonage-Turner syndrome
- Pediatric cardiac surgery
- Pelvic and acetabular fracture
- Peripheral nerve surgery
- Peripheral neuropathies, hereditary
- Pompe disorder
- Port wine stain
- Post-concussion syndrome
- Posterior cortical atrophy
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Post-polio rehabilitation
- Post-polio syndrome
- Post-transplant medical follow-up
- Post-traumatic epilepsy
- Post-traumatic headache
- Pregnancy in women with epilepsy
- Pre-surgical DBS Evaluations
- Pre-surgical Epilepsy Evaluations
- Preterm brain injury
- Primary brain tumor
- Primary nervous system tumor
- Primary progressive aphasia
- Primary tumor of the central nervous system
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Psychiatric and neurological illness interface
- Psychiatric symptoms in movement disorders
- Quantitative sensory testing
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring
- Refractory epilepsy
- Rehabilitation from neurologic diseases
- Rehabilitation, stroke
- Rehabilitation, traumatic brain injury
- REM behavior disorder
- Restless legs syndrome
- Retina
- Rett syndrome
- Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome
- Ruptured and unruptured brain aneurysms, minimally invasive treatment of
- Sensory peripheral neuropathy
- Simulation training
- Skull and linings of the brain
- Spasticity
- Spectrum disorders
- Spinal Tap
- Syncope
- Tic disorders
- Tourette syndrome
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- Traumatic brain injury
- Tremor
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Upper extremity nerve
- Vagus nerve stimulation
- White matter disease
- Women's health, neurology
- ABR
- Absence status epilepticus
- Acid maltase deficiency
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- Acute brachial neuropathy
- Acute brachial radiculitis
- Adenohypophyseal Hyposecretion
- After-shingles pain
- ALS
- Amyloid polyneuropathy
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Anosmia
- Aphasia, progressive
- Astrocytoma
- Atypical Parkinson's
- Autonomic nervous system diseases
- Back pain
- Balance problems
- Batten disease
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Benson's syndrome
- Birthmarks
- Blepharospasm
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain aneurisms, laparoscopic treatment
- Brain cancer
- Brain tumor
- Brain tumors
- Brain–machine interface
- Brown's tendon sheath syndrome
- CAA
- Call-Fleming syndrome
- Central nervous system neoplasm, primary
- Cerebroatrophic hyperammonemia
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome
- Complex partial status epilepticus
- Conjugate gaze spasm
- Conus Medullaris Syndrome
- Convergence excess
- Corticobasal degeneration (CBGD)
- CPSE
- Cranial arteritis
- CRPS
- Cyclophoria
- Cystitis
- Deep brain stimulation evaluation
- Dementia
- Devic's Syndrome
- Direct neural interface
- Dysautonomia
- Dysosmia
- Encephalomyelitis
- Epilepsy, post-traumatic
- Eyelid twitching
- Fainting
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Giant cell glioblastoma
- Glial cell tumor
- Glycogen storage disease type II
- Head injury, preterm
- Headache, post-traumatic
- Huntington's chorea
- Hyperosmia
- Hyposmia
- Infant paralysis
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Intervertebral disc degeneration
- Intervertebral disc displacement
- Intracranial aneurysm, minimally invasive treatment
- Intracranial hypertension, benign
- Involuntary eye movement
- Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS)
- Laryngeal nerve monitoring
- Limbic encephalitis
- Lou Gehrig's Disease
- LP
- Lyme borreliosis
- Multifocal leukoencephalopathy, progressive
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA)
- NCL
- Nerve compression syndrome
- Nerve compressions
- Nerve damage
- Neuralgia
- Neuralgia, post-herpetic
- Neuralgic amyotrophy
- OBD
- OBS
- Organic brain disease
- Organic brain disorder
- Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
- Parasomnia
- Parkinson's disease, surgery for
- Parkinson's syndrome,
- Parsonage-Aldren-Turner syndrome
- PCA
- Peripheral neuropathy, sensory
- Phakomatoses
- PHN
- Physical therapy
- Pituitary Insufficiency
- PML
- Poliomyelitis
- Pompe's disease
- Post-concussive syndrome
- Post-polio sequelae
- Post-poliomyelitis syndrome
- PPS
- Primary neoplasm of the central nervous system
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalitis
- Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
- PSP
- RCVS
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
- Rett disorder
- RLS
- RSD
- Schwannoma
- Secondary Parkinson's
- Seizures
- Seizures, post-traumatic
- Sheehan Syndrome
- Simmonds Disease
- Spasms
- Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome
- TBI
- Temporal arteritis
- Water on the brain
Education & Training
- Medical Education
- Gandhi Medical College - India
- Osmania University Faculty of Medicine
- Residency
- Oregon Health Sciences University
- Westlake Hospital
- Fellowship
- Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinic
Insurances Accepted
Please call the office(s) to verify your insurance is accepted.
- Healthlink
- Humana (Medicare)
- Multiplan-PHCS
- CHHS - HomeState
- HomeState
- RR Medicare
- Cigna
- Ambetter
- CHHS - Ambetter
- Medicare
- Medicare SLMG
- Essence
- CHHS - WellCare
- WellCare
- Oscar
- Allwell
- CHHS - Allwell
- Medicaid
- Anthem BCBS
- Aetna
- Ascension
- UHC
- Healthy Blue
- TriCare