Yasir Nihad Jassam, MBChB FRCP FAAN

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Yasir Jassam, MBChB MRCP(UK) FRCP(Glasg) FRCP FAAN, is a neurologist and a neuroimmunologist with Hoag memorial hospital Presbyterian.
After graduating from medical school, he received post graduate training in both internal medicine and neurology. He completed Core Medical Training (CMT) in Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom, he also earned the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK and a diploma in neuroimaging for research from the University of Edinburgh.
After moving to the U.S, Dr. Jassam completed neurology residency training in Tufts University in Boston, MA where he also served as a chief resident in neurology.
He then trained as a clinical fellow in neuroimmunology at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Dr. Jassam served as member of the CMSC board of governors and served as first chair of the MS professional is training sub-committee (MS-Pit).
Dr. Jassam is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). Dr. Jassam held the position of an assistant professor of neurology and attending neurologist and neuroimmunologist in Kansas University Medical Center before joining Hoag memorial hospital Presbyterian in March 2021 where he currently serves as the director of the Multiple sclerosis and Neuroimmunology program and chair of the department of neurology and psychiatry in Hoag Memorial hospital in Newport Beach, California.
He is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
His focus of specialty includes autoimmune neurological and neuroinflammatory disorders such as Multiple sclerosis, Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO), autoimmune encephalitis, transverse myelitis, optic neuritis, CNS vasculitis, neuro-sarcoidosis and others. He also has interest in medical myelopathies and non-surgical disorders of the spinal cord.
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