Hooman Azmi, M.D. |
 Hooman Azmi, M.D. received his bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University in New York. He received his medical degree with honors from New York Medical College where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. For his work on cellular communications in the nervous system, Dr. Azmi received the Dean’s Award in Medical Research at New York Medical College, and was also awarded the NYMC Trustees Scholarship during his years of medical education.
He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey where his main focus of research was functional magnetic resonance imaging and its applications to neurosurgical procedures, intraoperative MRI, as well as elucidation of mechanisms of epileptogenesis. During his residency, Dr Azmi was honored with the Arnold P.Gold Award for Humanism in Medicine. In June of 2006, Dr. Azmi was selected as the Center for Neurological Restoration’s Clinical Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic to pursue his clinical interest of surgical treatment of movement disorders. In addition to movement disorder surgeries, Dr. Azmi was actively pursuing his investigative interests at the Cleveland Clinic, using his expertise in neuroimaging to refine targeting techniques for deep brain stimulation for patients with movement disorders. He was also involved in research on the neuropsychological outcomes in patients with Parkinson’s disease who have undergone deep brain stimulator surgery. Dr. Azmi has authored and co-authored several articles in well respected scientific journals and has written many book chapters in his areas of interest. He has been invited to speak on his work both nationally and internationally and he has served on national committees of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Azmi returned to New Jersey in 2007, to establish Centers for the Treatment of Movement Disorders at Hackensack University Medical Center and The Valley Hospital. Dr. Azmi specializes in the surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease, other movement disorders and spasticity. Dr. Azmi’s other areas of expertise relate to the surgical treatment of various chronic pain syndromes including failed back syndrome, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, complex regional pain syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, atypical facial pain, and other chronic facial pains and headaches. He is also trained in the treatment of epilepsy, brain tumors and aneurysms, complex spine and peripheral nerve surgeries. Dr. Azmi is the Director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the Department of Neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center where he is an active staff member. Dr. Azmi is also on staff at The Valley Hospital, Englewood Hospital and, Holy Name Hospital. Dr. Azmi is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, New Jersey Medical Society, and the Bergen County Medical Society.
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