About Sahar Zafar, MD, MBBS
Sahar F. Zafar, MD is a neurointensivist and epileptologist. She is the Medical Director for Inpatient Neurology, and is Co-Director of the Center for Value-Based Healthcare and Sciences. Dr. Zafar devotes her clinical time in the MGH Neurosciences ICU, and is part of the Epilepsy Service. She sees patient in the MGH Epilepsy Clinic.
Her clinical interests include acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, seizures and status epilepticus in critically ill patients. She provides long term follow up care to epilepsy patients, and for patients with brain injuries such as stroke and trauma with seizures . Her research interests include critical care EEG monitoring, anti-seizure medication treatment in patients with brain injuries and seizures, and post ICU discharge health outcomes.
Clinical Interests:
- Critical care neurology
- EEG
- Epilepsy
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Urdu
Locations
Mass General Neurology: Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
55 Fruit St.
Lunder Building
6th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 857-238-5600
Mass General Neurology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 855-644-6387
Medical Education
- MD, AGA Khan University Medical College
- Residency, Baylor College of Medicine
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Clinical Neurophysiology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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Selected publications
Zafar SF, Postma EN, Biswal S et al. Electronic Health Data Predict Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurocritical Care. 2017. Oct 5. doi: 10.1007/s12028-017-0466-8.
Lam AD, Maus D, Zafar SF et al. SCOPE-mTL: A non-invasive tool for identifying and lateralizing medial temporal lobe seizures prior to scalp EEG ictal onset. Clin Neurophysiol. 2017. June;128(6):1091-1099.
Zafar SF, Westover MB, Gaspar N et al. Inter-rater agreement for consensus definitions of delayed ischemic events after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2016. June;33(3): 227-34.