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Professor of Neurology
Director of the Neuromuscular Disease Center
and the ALS Comprehensive Care Clinic
MD Degree Awarded By: State University of
New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Residency: University of Tennessee
Fellowship: Neuromuscular Disease, Indiana University School of Medicine |
Biographical Sketch:
Rahman Pourmand, MD is a Professor of Neurology at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He
is the Director of the Neuromuscular Disease Center and the ALS Comprehensive
Care Clinic. He completed his neurology residency at the University of
Tennessee and completed his neuromuscular disease fellowship at the
University of Virginia. He also received post residency fellowship in
neurophysiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He was a
member of the faculty of the Neurology Department at Indiana University
from 1983 until 2001 when he joined the Neurology Department at Stony Brook.
Dr. Pourmand has written many articles and book chapters in the
neuromuscular field. He has edited five additional books in neuromuscular
disease including ALS, he has also written a book in Neurology, and he is
the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease.
He maintains an active clinical practice that focuses on neuromuscular
disorders and he directs the multidisciplinary ALS clinic which meets
twice a month at Stony Brook Hospital. He is actively involved in
teaching residents and students in neurology.
The Neuromuscular Disease Center at Stony Brook involves a
multidisciplinary approach to patients with ALS which is supported
by the ALS Association Greater New York Chapter. The Center also sees patients for diagnosis and
treatment of peripheral neuropathies, myopathies, myasthenia gravis
and muscular dystrophy. EMG and Nerve Conduction testing is also
done at the Center as well as Single Fiber EMG, Botox therapy,
Autonomic Reflex testing. Dr. Pourmand also performs outpatient
muscle, nerve and skin biopsies.
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