Changrui Xiao, MD

Dr. Seyed A. Sajjadi is a UCI Health neurologist who specializes in memory disorders and whose clinical interests include Alzheimer’s disease and atypical forms of dementia. He earned his medical degree at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran and a PhD in neurosciences at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in behavioral neurology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He also received fellowship training in cognitive neurology at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. A clinician scientist who studies neurodegenerative pathologies across the aging spectrum, Sajjadi's research focus includes Alzheimer's disease, primary progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia and dementia in the oldest adults. He is the recipient of multiple National Institutes of Health grants and the author of numerous studies that have appeared in prominent medical journals. He is also the recipient of the inaugural UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) Joan and Don Beall Scholar Award.

Dr. Ali A. Habib is a board-certified UCI Health neurologist who specializes in neuromuscular disorders including muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), myopathies and myasthenia gravis. He earned his medical degree at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed an internal medicine internship at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, where he also completed a residency in neurology. He received fellowship training in neuromuscular medicine and neurophysiology at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, also in New York City. He received additional fellowship training in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the Eleanor & Lou Gehrig ALS Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Habib's research interests include studying treatments for myasthenia gravis, ALS, myositis, myopathy, neuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).

Dr. Afshan Hameed is a board-certified UCI Health cardiologist and maternal-fetal medicine specialist. She is a nationally recognized expert who co-authored the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' inter-conception care guidelines for women with hypertension to improve post-partum care and follow up. Her clinical interests include heart disease in pregnancy, fetal echocardiography, preeclampsia and anticoagulation in pregnancy Hameed received her medical degree from King Edward Medical University in Lahore, Pakistan, followed by residencies in internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in cardiology. Her research focus is on maternal cardiac disease, anticoagulation in pregnancy and improving maternal morbidity and mortality. She maintains current funding for four active research projects examining cardiac disease and its relationship to pregnancy, with an emphasis on heart failure, valvular disease and anticoagulation in pregnancy. Her goal is to eliminate preventable causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Hameed serves on the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Advisory Committee (PAMR), which reviews all cases of maternal mortality to identify gaps in care for quality improvement opportunities. She also helped develop the cardiovascular and venous thromboembolism toolkits published by CMQCC. She also served on the American College of Gynecology's Presidential Task Force for the publication of its 2019 Practice Bulletin on Heart Disease in Pregnancy. She currently is developing the Obstetrics Basic Life Support curriculum to integrate into the American Heart Association Life Support Program and serves on the writing committee for Heart Rhythm Society’s “Arrhythmias in Pregnancy Guidelines” and the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine's Quality and Patient Safety Committee.