USA Health welcomes new interventional neurologist
M. Adeel Saleemi, M.D. specializes in endovascular treatments of cerebral aneurysms, acute stroke therapy, cerebral and spinal angiography, preoperative tumor embolization, intracranial and extracranial angioplasty and stenting, and cerebral vascular malformation embolization.
By Lindsay Lyle
lalyle@health.southalabama.edu
USA Health is expanding its neurology specialists with the addition of interventional neurologist M. Adeel Saleemi, M.D.
He specializes in endovascular treatments of cerebral aneurysms, acute stroke therapy, cerebral and spinal angiography, preoperative tumor embolization, intracranial and extracranial angioplasty and stenting, and cerebral vascular malformation embolization.
Saleemi, who is also an assistant professor of neurology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama, was interested in joining an academic program with potential for research and heavy clinical volume. He teaches medical students, neurology residents and rotating residents from other services. He is also involved with research and clinical trials for new and advanced treatment modalities.
He earned his medical degree from Allama Iqbal Medical College in Pakistan. He completed his residency training in neurology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, followed by a fellowship in vascular neurology and neuroendovascular surgery at Michigan State University/Sparrow Hospital in East Lansing.
Saleemi is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with certifications in neurology and vascular neurology and board eligible for neurointervention. He is a member of the American Heart Association, American Stroke Association, American Academy of Neurology and the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery.
In addition to English, he is fluent in Punjabi and Urdu.
USA Health Neurology Specialists is located in suite 2E of the Strada Patient Care Center, 1601 Center St. Call 251-660-5108 to make an appointment.
