About me
Syed H Shabbir, MD is the Director of Epilepsy and Medical Director of the EEG lab at Franklin Square Hospital. He is also an Associate Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center. He studied neuroscience at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor graduating with Honors and High Distinction. He completed his medical training and neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City with Distinction in Reseach. He specialized in Clinical Neurophysiology with a focus on EEG, Epilepsy and Surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
He is board-certified in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology / Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He also has board certification in Clinical Neurophysiology with added competency in Critical Care EEG Monitoring by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology. He has authored papers that have been published in major journals.
He was named a Top Doctor by Baltimore magazine in 2023 and 2024.
He sees patients at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center providing comprehensive evaluation and treatment of all adult neurological disorders. He specializes in seizure disorders and their treatment, however also has an interest and expertise in Headache disorders, Migraines, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease / Dementia and Stroke.
He strives to develop a personal rapport with every patient. Dr. Shabbir feels that by learning from his patients, he can provide better care and build rewarding, trusting relationships.
“There has never been a more exciting time in Neurology. With growing understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of neurological disorders, there are ever-expanding treatment options for otherwise progressive and debilitating conditions.”
- Dr. Syed H Shabbir
Clinical areas of focus
- Epilepsy
- Migraine
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abnormal Movements
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Brain Disorders
- Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Cognitive Function Disorders
- Convulsions
- Degenerative Diseases Of Nervous System
- Dementia
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy And Seizures
- Extrapyramidal And Movement Disorders
- Gait And Balance Problems
- Head Injury
- Headache
- Migraine
- Mononeuropathy Of Upper Limb
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myopathies
- Parkinson's Disease
Procedures I perform
- Central Nervous Electrical Activity Monitoring
- Chronic Headache Treatment
- Cranial Electrical Stimulation
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Demyelinating Optic Neuropathy Treatment
- Eeg Monitoring
- Electrical Nerve Stimulation
- Electroencephalogram
- Electroencephalogram Review
- Electromyography
- Electronic Analysis Of Implanted Neurostimulator
- Median Nerve Conduction Studies
- Nerve Block
- Neuroimmunopathology
- Parkinson's Disease
- Seizure Treatment
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Medicare FFS
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Optimum Choice
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Navigate
- Medicare Direct
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Network OA
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- TRICARE East Select
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- OA Plus
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna HMO
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- CareFirst NASCO
- POS OA
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- IH-Open HMO
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- CIGNA PPO
- Choice POS II Open Access
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Aetna VA Exchange
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- IH-Open POS Plus
- CareFirst EPO
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Employee Health Plan
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Choice POS
- HumanaChoice PPO
- CareFirst Administrators
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- United Healthcare Choice
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- CIGNA Indemnity
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Beech Street PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- HighMark
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Choice POS II
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- IH-Network Only Plus
- IH-POS Plus
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- TRICARE East Prime
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- IH-Open POS II
- IH-Indemnity
- CIGNA EPO
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- IH-PPO
- First Health PPO
- IH-EPO Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- United Student Resources
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Sentara Health
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- UHC Passport
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- IH-Open HMO Option
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Choice Fund PPO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- IH-POS
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Core Essential (HMO)
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Aetna Basic
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- TRICARE for Life East
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- IH-HMO
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- First Health PPO
Videos
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medicine GME (2020)
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College (2019)
Internship: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College (2016)
Medical School: Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2015)
Awards
- Baltimore magazine Top Doctor 2023 and 2024 Teaching Star 2019 & 2020, Education of medication students, Montefiore Medical Center Best Case Report award 2014, Milford Fulop Poster Competition, Jacobi Medical Center Community Service Award, 2013, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Shabbir SH, Nadeem FZ, Labovitz DL. Anteromedial thalamic infarct: a rare presentation. Case Report. BMJ Case Reports. 2018.
Shabbir SH, Nadeem FZ, Labovitz DL. A rare presentation of AICA syndrome. Case Report. BMJ Case Reports. 2018. pii: bcr-2017-223402. DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-223402.
Shabbir SH, Liberman A, Milstein M. A case of new onset seizures. Images. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2017. 47:118-119. DOI:10.1016/j.jocn.2017.09.017
Shabbir SH, Elina M, Milstein M. Microhemorrhages in the Corpus Callosum. Letter to the Editor. Can J Neurol Sci. 2017. DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2017.238
Nadeem FZ, Shabbir SH. Hypertriglyceridemia-induced Acute Pancreatitis. Clinical Images. J Gen Intern Med. 2017
Shabbir SH, Tong O, Gluck L, Robbins M. Convergence spasm in Wernicke encephalopathy. The Neurohospitalist. 2017. DOI: 10.1177/1941874417690668
Shabbir SH, Jadeja NM. Non-ketotic hyperglycemic chorea-ballism (NKHCB): an atypical case and a review of literature. Case Report. EJBM. 2016; 31:25–26.
Shabbir SH, Maria Teresa M. Santos. The role of prehealth student volunteers at a student-run free clinic in New York, the United States. J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2015. 12:49. PMID: 26582631.
Shabbir SH. DNA Repair Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration: Lessons From Rare Pediatric Disorders. Topical Review. Journal of Child Neurology. 2015. 1-5. PMID: 26116382.
Shabbir SH. Psychiatric underpinnings of chronic diabetic neuropathic pain. Commentary. EJBM. 2015. 30:37-40.
Shabbir SH, Sanders AE. Clinical Significance in Dementia Research: A Review of the Literature. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2014. PMID: 24526758.