Samina Anwar, M.D.

Dr. Samina Anwar, MD is a Neurology Specialist in Hagerstown, MD and has over 34 years of experience in the medical field. She is a board-certified member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

She graduated from Dow Med College University of Karachi Pakistan medical school in 1988, ranking in the top 5% of her class. She completed her neurology residencies at the Stony Brook University Hospital and North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York. She also did her Fellowship at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System where her training included extensive exposure to EEG, evoked potentials, tele-monitoring, pre-surgical evaluation of patients, intractable epilepsy management of patients and research activities. Her fellowship training was in Epilepsy and Neurophysiology. She has been practicing in the Hagerstown area since 2000. Dr. Anwar has extensive experience in Headache, Epilepsy, Stroke and Neurodegenerative Disorders.

At Meritus Medical Center, she was the winner of the Stroke Care Excellence Award. Dr. Anwar is the Chief of the Neurology department and Director of the Stroke Program. She is also sharing an on-call rotation with local neurologists seeing patients in the hospital for neurological emergencies.

Research:

• “Dilantin Toxicity in HIV patients” A retrospective review of eight cases seen in Stony Brook Hospital in New York from July 1992- June 1994.
• “Familial Multiple Sclerosis” An epidemiological review, Co-Author at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York.
• “Role of Plasmapheresis in acute Gullian-Barre Syndrome” A literature review presented at neurology seminar at Stony Brook University in New York.
• “GEM Study” A study with Johns Hopkins University examining the role of Gingko Biloba for the treatment of Dementia.