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Adjunct rank detailsZubeda Sheikh
Assistant Professor AdjunctAbout
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2026
New‐onset refractory status epilepticus/febrile infection‐related epilepsy syndrome centers of excellence: A framework for coordinated care, research, and improved outcomes
Eschbach K, Fisher K, Haider H, Casas D, Gaspard N, Gilmore E, Gofton T, Gopaul M, Hirsch L, Muscal E, Riviello J, Sheikh Z, Stredny C, Taraschenko O, Wickström R, Wong N, Lai Y. New‐onset refractory status epilepticus/febrile infection‐related epilepsy syndrome centers of excellence: A framework for coordinated care, research, and improved outcomes. Epilepsia 2026 PMID: 42257690, DOI: 10.1002/epi.70338.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRecognizing NORSE and FIRES - Clinical Course, Diagnosis and Evaluation
Wickström R, Sheikh Z, Hirsch L. Recognizing NORSE and FIRES - Clinical Course, Diagnosis and Evaluation. Seminars In Pediatric Neurology 2026, 101294. DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2026.101294.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNew-onset refractory status epilepticusFebrile infection-related epilepsy syndromeClinical courseStatus epilepticusCryptogenic new-onset refractory status epilepticusDiagnostic evaluationDiagnostic strategiesSuper-refractory status epilepticusAssociated with high morbidityRefractory status epilepticusCerebrospinal fluid analysisTreatment-refractory seizuresLimited high-quality evidenceSevere neurological conditionsEarly neuroimagingHigh-quality evidenceNo etiologyTargeted therapyCytokine panelComprehensive bloodClinical recognitionHigh morbidityClinical severityEEG monitoringDiagnostic cluesAutomating Critical Care EEG: Enhancing Accuracy, Efficiency, and Patient Outcomes in Critical Care
Rubinos C, Amorim E, Rehim E, Rodriguez-Ruiz A, Zafar S, Sheikh Z, Bruzzone M. Automating Critical Care EEG: Enhancing Accuracy, Efficiency, and Patient Outcomes in Critical Care. Epilepsy Currents 2026, 15357597261426958. PMID: 41837250, PMCID: PMC12987747, DOI: 10.1177/15357597261426958.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchContinuous EEGAI-based approachesReal-world constraintsAI-assisted toolsQuality of patient-centered careCritically ill patientsElectronic medical record systemPatient-centered careEEG analysis methodsClinical decision-makingMedical record systemQuantitative EEGEEG processingIll patientsClinical capacityEnhanced accuracyPractical implementationClinical expertiseNeurocritical careCritical careData acquisitionAutomationEEGRecording systemCare
2025
Expert-Level Detection of Epilepsy Markers in EEG on Short and Long Timescales
Li J, Goldenholz D, Alkofer M, Sun C, Nascimento F, Halford J, Dean B, Galanti M, Struck A, Greenblatt A, Lam A, Herlopian A, Nwankwo C, Weber D, Maus D, Haider H, Karakis I, Yoo J, Ng M, Selioutski O, Taraschenko O, Osman G, Katyal R, Schmitt S, Benbadis S, Cash S, Tatum W, Sheikh Z, Kong W, Bayas G, Turley N, Hong S, Westover M, Jing J. Expert-Level Detection of Epilepsy Markers in EEG on Short and Long Timescales. NEJM AI 2025, 2: 10.1056/aioa2401221. PMID: 40689158, PMCID: PMC12276842, DOI: 10.1056/aioa2401221.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchArea under the precision-recall curveSpike detectionArtificial intelligenceHard-negative miningResidual network architectureExpert-level accuracyDeep learning modelsArea under the receiver operating characteristic curveFalse positivesPrecision-recall curveNetwork architectureHuman Epilepsy ProjectTelemedicine applicationsDiverse datasetsModel generalizabilityDatasetRobust performanceClassificationArea under the curveReceiver operating characteristic curveLocalize seizure originExternal datasetsElectroencephalogram recordingsCalibration errorsOperating characteristics curveGlobal, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Collaborators G, Feigin V, Vos T, Nair B, Hay S, Abate Y, Al Magied A, ElHafeez S, Abdelkader A, Abdollahifar M, Abdullahi A, Aboagye R, Abreu L, Abu Rumeileh S, Abualruz H, Aburuz S, Abu-Zaid A, Addo I, Adedoyin R, Adepoju A, Afzal M, Afzal S, Ahmad A, Ahmad S, Ahmad T, Ahmadi A, Ahmadzade A, Ahmed A, Ahmed H, Ahmed M, Ahmed M, Al Awaidy S, Al Omari O, Al-Ajlouni Y, Albashtawy M, Al-Fatly B, Algammal A, Ali A, Ali M, Ali S, Ali W, Alif M, Almazan J, Alshahrani N, Altaf A, Al-Wardat M, Al-Worafi Y, Aly H, Alzoubi K, Amiri S, Ancuceanu R, Angappan D, Ansari M, Anvari S, Anyasodor A, Arabloo J, Arafat M, Aravkin A, Aregawi B, Aremu A, Atout M, Atreya A, Aujayeb A, Aychiluhm S, Aziz S, Azzam A, Badiye A, Bai R, Baig A, Bakkannavar S, Bandyopadhyay S, Banerjee I, Bardhan M, Barker-Collo S, Barrow A, Basharat Z, Bashiri A, Basiru A, Bastan M, Batchu S, Behnam B, Ramirez D, Bemanalizadeh M, Beyene K, Bhagat D, Bhagavathula A, Bhaskar S, Bhat A, Bhatti G, Bhatti J, Bhuiyan M, Bhuyan S, Bilgin C, Bisulli F, Boloor A, Boppana S, Bouaoud S, Bustanji Y, Barsbay M, Carvalho F, Castaldelli-Maia J, Chandika R, Chattu V, Chaudhary A, Ching P, Chopra H, Chu D, Chu H, Cortese S, Cortesi P, Cruz-Martins N, Dadras O, Dai X, D'Amico E, Dandona L, Dandona R, Darcho S, Darwish A, Dhane A, Dhulipala V, Diaz M, Chi T, Dohare S, Doshi O, Dsouza H, Dziedzic A, Ebrahimi A, Eissazade N, Ekholuenetale M, Arab R, Bayoumy I, Meligy O, Elhabashy H, Elhadi M, Eltaha C, Fagbamigbe A, Fahim A, Fares J, Kouhanjani M, Fasanmi A, Fatehizadeh A, Fazeli P, Fazylov T, Fekadu G, Fereshtehnejad S, Ferrara P, Ferreira N, Fetensa G, Fischer F, Foschi M, Gadanya M, Galali Y, Ganesan B, Gao X, Garg R, Gebregergis M, Ghadirian F, Ghamari S, Gilani J, Girmay A, Giussani G, Gnedovskaya E, Golechha M, Gouravani, Grada A, Guan S, Gupta S, Dogahe M, Haj-Mirzaian A, Hamdy N, Harlianto N, Hasaballah A, Hasani H, Hassan A, Hassan I, Tabatabaei M, Hegazi O, Heidari G, Hemmati M, Hezam K, Hoan N, Holla R, Hosseinzadeh M, Huang J, Huynh H, Hwang B, Ibitoye S, Ikiroma A, Ilesanmi O, Ilic I, Ilic M, Imam M, Immurana M, Inok A, Islam R, Iwu C, Jacob L, Jafarzadeh A, Jahrami H, Jairoun A, Jakovljevic M, Yengejeh R, Jamora R, Jawaid T, Jayapal S, Ji Z, Jonas J, Joseph N, Joshua C, Kabir Z, Kalani R, Kamireddy A, Kanmodi K, Kapoor N, Kashoo F, Kaur H, Kazemi F, Khajuria H, Khalilian A, Khan M, Khatatbeh H, Kashani H, Kheirallah K, Khidri F, Khormali M, Khosla A, Khubchandani J, Kim Y, Kim Y, Kimokoti R, Koh H, Kolahi A, Kostev K, Krishan K, Krishnamoorthy V, Kruja J, Kuddus M, Kulimbet M, Kumar G, Kumar M, Kundu S, Kytö V, Lahariya C, Lal D, Lám J, Landires I, Lanfranchi F, Le N, Lee S, Ligade V, Lim S, Linehan C, Liu X, Liu X, López-Gil J, Lucchetti G, Majeed A, Malhotra K, Malik A, Mansouri V, Marateb H, Martorell M, Marzo R, Mathangasinghe Y, Mediratta R, Mehndiratta M, Meles H, Melese E, Mensah G, Meretoja A, Mestrovic T, Mettananda S, Minervini G, Mirfakhraie R, Mirza M, Misganaw A, Misra A, Mohamed A, Mohamed N, Mohammadian-Hafshejani A, Mohammadzadeh I, Mohan S, Mokdad A, Monasta L, Ghalibaf A, Moradi M, Motappa R, Muccioli L, Mulita F, Munkhsaikhan Y, Murillo-Zamora E, Muthu S, Nabavi A, Naik G, Nargus S, Nashwan A, Natto Z, Nauman J, Naveed M, Nayak B, Nazri-Panjaki A, Nepal G, Netsere H, Nguyen H, Niazi R, Nikoobar A, Nozari M, Nri-Ezedi C, Nwatah V, Nzoputam O, Oancea B, Olagunju A, Olalusi O, Bali A, Ordak M, Orish V, Ortiz-Prado E, Otstavnov N, Ouyahia A, Owolabi M, Padron-Monedero A, Padubidri J, Panda S, Panda-Jonas S, Katare D, Pandey A, Panos L, Pantazopoulos I, Papadopoulou P, Parekh U, Parikh R, Parsons N, Passera R, Patil S, Pawar S, Toroudi H, Pensato U, Peprah, Peres M, Perna S, Pham H, Piracha Z, Piradov M, Poddighe D, Poluru R, Pour-Rashidi A, Pradhan J, Prasad M, Pribadi D, Puvvula J, Qasim N, Radhakrishnan V, Raghav P, Rahim F, Rahman M, Rahmani A, Rahmanian M, Raja A, Sanati A, Rajpoot P, Ramadan M, Ramasamy S, Rancic N, Rao S, Rashidi M, Rathish D, Rawaf S, Reddy M, Redwan E, Rezaeian M, Rhee T, Riaz M, Rodriguez J, Roever L, Romozzi M, Rony M, Root K, Rout H, Saad A, Sabet C, Saddik B, Sadeghian R, Saeb M, Saeed U, Saeed U, Sharif-Askari F, Sharif-Askari N, Sahebkar A, Saif Z, Sajadi S, Salami A, Salimi S, Samodra Y, Samy A, Sarode G, Sarode S, Sathian B, Sathyanarayan A, Satpathy M, Sawhney M, Selvaraj S, Semreen M, Sendekie A, Senthilkumaran S, Sethi Y, Seylani A, Shahbandi A, Shahid S, Shaikh M, Shaikh S, Shamim M, Shams-Beyranvand M, Shamsutdinova A, Sharifan A, Rad J, Sharma A, Sharma V, Shayan M, Sheikh Z, Shetty M, Shetty P, Shetty P, Shittu A, Shlobin N, Shorofi S, Shrestha S, Siddig E, Singh G, Singh H, Singh J, Singh P, Singh P, Singh S, Solanki S, Soraneh S, Stanikzai M, Sullman M, Sunnerhagen K, Suresh V, Swain C, Szarpak L, Damavandi P, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Tabche C, Taiba J, Tanwar M, Tareke M, Temsah M, Temsah R, Teramoto M, Thangaraju P, Thirunavukkarasu S, Ticoalu J, Tiruye T, Tiwari K, Tiwari V, Tovani-Palone M, Tran T, Duc N, Tripathi M, Tromans S, Tsai D, Tsatsakis A, Tsermpini E, Tumurkhuu M, Udoakang A, Ullah S, Umair M, Unnikrishnan B, Urso D, Usman J, Vaithinathan A, Vakilian A, Varma R, Venketasubramanian N, Villafañe J, Vinayak M, Veloz A, Walde M, Wang S, Wang Y, Waris A, Wickramasinghe N, Winkler A, Yesuf S, Yiğit A, Yiğit V, Yilma M, Yismaw Y, Yon D, Yonemoto N, Yu C, Zandi M, Zanghì A, Zeariya M, Zhao Z, Zhong C, Zielińska M, Zitoun O, Zyoud S, Zyoud S, Rautalin I, Newton C, Wiebe S, Murray C. Global, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Public Health 2025, 10: e203-e227. PMID: 40015291, PMCID: PMC11876103, DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(24)00302-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsdisability-adjusted life yearsage-standardised prevalencedisability-adjusted life year ratesmiddle-income countriesglobal burdennational burdenGlobal Burden of Disease Studyactive epilepsyBurden of Disease StudyGlobal Burden of Diseasesecondary epilepsyage-standardised deatheffects of stigmaRisk Factors Studyrisk factorspopulation representative surveysburden of diseaseburden of epilepsyidiopathic epilepsyverbal autopsyDALY ratesvital registrationuncertainty intervalsprevalent casesepilepsy deathsNew onset refractory status epilepticus: Long‐term outcomes beyond seizures
Espino P, Eschbach K, Blank L, Cervenka M, Muscal E, Farias‐Moeller R, Gilmore E, Gopaul M, Haider H, Hanin A, Hirsch L, Kellogg M, Kluger G, Lee S, Melendez‐Zaidi A, Navarro V, Oliger A, Pasini E, Reuner G, Sharpe C, Sheikh Z, Steigleder L, Steriade C, Stredny C, Strzelczyk A, Taraschenko O, van Baalen A, Vinette S, Wickström R, Wong N, Yoo J, Gofton T. New onset refractory status epilepticus: Long‐term outcomes beyond seizures. Epilepsia 2025, 66: 988-1005. PMID: 39825688, PMCID: PMC11997932, DOI: 10.1111/epi.18267.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsQuality of lifeLong-term outcomesCaregiver burdenConsensus-building processDevelopment of targeted management strategiesWorking GroupOutcome domainsLong-term mortalityOutcome measuresConsensus processExpert panelRecovery trajectoriesSurvivorsOutcomesPubMed searchResearch studiesKnowledge gapsCaregiversStandard dataPsychiatric
2024
Accuracy of a Rapid-Response EEG's Automated Seizure-Burden Estimator
Sheikh Z, Dhakar M, Fong M, Fang W, Ayub N, Molino J, Haider H, Foreman B, Gilmore E, Mizrahi M, Karakis I, Schmitt S, Osman G, Yoo J, Hirsch L. Accuracy of a Rapid-Response EEG's Automated Seizure-Burden Estimator. Neurology 2024, 104: e210234. PMID: 39724534, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000210234.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptselectrographic status epilepticusnegative predictive valuestatus epilepticustreat nonconvulsive status epilepticuspredictive valueco-primary outcome measuresnonconvulsive status epilepticuspositive predictive valueretrospective observational studyClass II evidencelow-to-moderate sensitivitylimited-resource settingsII evidencetriage patientsobservational studypatientsregional hospitaloutcome measuresexpert reviewepilepticusscreening toolcommunity hospitalburden estimatesEEGPPVCorrigendum: A practical approach to in-hospital management of new-onset refractory status epilepticus/febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome
Sheikh Z, Hirsch L. Corrigendum: A practical approach to in-hospital management of new-onset refractory status epilepticus/febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome. Frontiers In Neurology 2024, 15: 1509148. PMID: 39588231, PMCID: PMC11586205, DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1509148.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters