Shahram Oveisgharan, MD, is currently working at Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center as an assistant professor of neurological sciences. He earned his doctorate in medicine from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran in 2000, and spent 4 years of neurology residency at Tehran University of Medical Sciences from 2004-2008. He was a research fellow in the field of stroke and vascular cognitive impairment with Dr. Vladimir Hachinski at University of Western Ontario in Canada from 2007 to 2010. He joined RADC in 2014 as an instructor and a neuroepidemiology fellow and is continuing his work as an assistant professor of neurological sciences since July 2018.
Oveisgharan’s main responsibilities include visiting participants who are recruited in the RADC longitudinal studies like the Memory and Aging Project, reviewing participants’ charts and prescription lists and filling relevant forms, and reviewing autopsy letters of participants who pass away and have agreed for organ donation in life. As a neurologist, he answers participants’ and their families’ questions about their health, cognition status, and MRI findings.
Oveisgharan’s research interests include old age cognitive impairment and dementia. Specifically, he investigates vascular and neurodegenerative causes of cognitive impairment and tries to delineate the phenotypes which more specifically represent underlying pathology. He is also involved in researches which examine men and women difference in these pathologies. Furthermore, he is investigating old age motor impairment in relation to nervous system pathologies. Finally, he is part of a team who is trying to connect RADC epidemiological data with the Medicare data.