Abdulrahman Alwaki, MD

Biography

Dr. Alwaki is triple board certified in neurology, clinical neurophysiology, and epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He completed residency training in neurology at Henry Ford Health System/Wayne State University and served as chief resident. He completed fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at Emory University followed by fellowship in epilepsy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He joins UTHealth Houston from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he was a faculty at Emory University and served as director of the Emory Brain Mapping Program. Dr. Alwaki is a fellow of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (FACNS) and has received multiple teaching, service and research awards throughout his academic and clinical career.

Dr. Alwaki served as president of the Southern Epilepsy and EEG Society from 2020 through 2023 and is currently the society’s CME director. He has served on the board of directors for the SEEEG society, the membership committee, and clinical research committee and the MOC/Exam Committee of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) and on the organization’s SEEG and IOM consortium committee. He also serves on the scientific program committee and membership committee at the American Epilepsy Society (AES). He teaches at national courses and workshops on SEEG, Deep Brain Stimulation and Cortical Stimulation Mapping.

He is an avid mentor of medical students, residents, and fellows and has chaired, served as moderator, and presented nationally and internationally.