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10903 New Hampshire Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20993
Summary
- I am a Clinical Reviewer in the Office of Neuroscience - Neurology Division II at the FDA. The Division of Neurology II regulates and reviews Investigational New Drug (IND) applications and marketing applications for drug and biologic products for the treatment of seizures, epilepsies, medical countermeasures, migraine, other headaches, traumatic brain injury, inner ear disorders, stroke, and neuroimmunologic disorders.
I previously worked as a vascular neurologist and principal investigator of a stroke research laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and held an academic appointment as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. I obtained my medical degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and trained in clinical neurology at Rambam Health Care Campus and Henry Ford Hospital. I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in basic stroke research at Henry Ford Hospital and a vascular neurology fellowship at the NIH/NINDS.
Education & Training
- Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health/National Capital ConsortiumFellowship, Vascular Neurology, 2015 - 2016
- Henry Ford Health/Henry Ford HospitalResidency, Neurology, 2011 - 2015
- Henry Ford HospitalPost-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008 - 2011
- Technion-Israel Inst of Technology Faculty of MedicineClass of 2005
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2014 - Present
- MD State Medical License 2016 - 2025
- MA State Medical License 2017 - 2024
- NH State Medical License 2024 - 2024
- VA State Medical License 2016 - 2017
- DC State Medical License 2015 - 2016
- MI State Medical License 2011 - 2015
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Vascular Neurology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award American Heart Association, 2016
- Recipient of the 2014 Annual Meeting Resident Research Travel Scholarship American Academy of Neurology, 2014
- 1st Place Resident Research winner Henry Ford Health System, 2012
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 22 citationsCombination treatment of stroke with sub-therapeutic doses of Simvastatin and human umbilical cord blood cells enhances vascular remodeling and improves functional out...Xu Cui, Michael Chopp, Alex Zacharek, J. Dai, Chunling Zhang
Neuroscience. 2012-12-27 - 27 citationsStroke Induces Nuclear Shuttling of Histone Deacetylase 4Haifa Kassis, Amjad Shehadah, Michael Chopp, Cynthia Roberts, Zheng Gang Zhang
Stroke. 2015-07-01 - 37 citationsTherapeutic Benefit of Treatment of Stroke With Simvastatin and Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells: Neurogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Axon GrowthXu Cui, Michael Chopp, Amjad Shehadah, Alex Zacharek, Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols
Cell Transplantation. 2012-05-01
Press Mentions
- NINDS’s Shehadah Receives ASA New Investigator AwardMarch 25th, 2016
- Stroke Researchers and Scientists Receive National AwardsFebruary 17th, 2016
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Other Languages
- Hebrew, Arabic
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