Navid Valizadeh, M.D.

Navid Valizadeh, M.D., is a dual-boarded neurologist who divides clinical responsibilities between the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at Dell Seton Medical Center and the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center within the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences at UT Health Austin. He holds board certification in neurology and in neurocritical care from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

In his clinic, he specializes in the care of people with autoimmune encephalitis, paraneoplastic neurological disorders, chronic infections of the central nervous system including fungal infections, neurosarcoidosis, multiple sclerosis and other neuro-immunological conditions. In his work as a neuro-intensivist, he specializes in the evaluation and management of people with critical neurological illnesses including acute ischemic stroke, acute intracranial hemorrhage including subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, coma, fulminant infections and inflammatory conditions of the central nervous system, neuromuscular respiratory failure and other conditions requiring neuro-intensive care.

Valizadeh is an assistant professor in neurology at Dell Medical School. He also serves as the associate program director for the neurology residency program at Dell Med. He earned his medical degree in the National University of Ireland in Galway, then completed training in internal medicine for a further three years in the Republic of Ireland. He completed membership examinations for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom. After completing a masters in clinical neuroscience at University College London, Queen Square, he transitioned to the USA. He completed his neurology residency at the University of Massachusetts and neurocritical care fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He also completed a neuro-immunology Fellowship at Dell Medical School.

Valizadeh’s career interests include optimizing the training and certification of brain death evaluation both within neurology and other medical specialties; research interests in variations of brain tissue oxygenation in different conditions causing acute brain injury; and identifying barriers to care in outpatient neuro-immunology practice that can serve to inform future advocacy work. He has been recognized with various teaching awards and is a proud member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.