Neurology and Neuro Surgery

Biography

Dr. Mubeen Rafay is an Associate Professor, Academic Pediatric Neurologist and a Stroke Sub-specialist in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, the University of Manitoba, Canada. She is also a clinical researcher at the University of Manitoba and an active member of the Manitoba Institute of Child Health. In addition, she is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, at the Aga Khan University, Karachi Pakistan. Dr. Rafay completed her sub-specialty training in Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Stroke at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. She has also completed a Masters in Science Degree in the Epidemiology Stream from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Her clinical research activity focuses in the field of pediatric stroke, mainly stroke presentation, subtypes and outcome and childhood vasculopathies. Her other research interests include the Pediatric Epilepsy, including neonatal seizures and Rett Syndrome. Her research is funded by research grants and she has published many important research projects. She believes in the research philosophy that best research is the result of questions arising from direct patient care and real clinical scenarios. She has published widely in her areas of clinical interest with over 25 peer-viewed articles, one textbook chapter and 27 research abstracts which have been presented at major scientific meetings throughout the world. Some of her active clinically oriented research projects include: epidemiology of childhood ischemic stroke in Manitoba, especially pediatric subtypes, evaluation hypercoagulable risk factors in children with stroke and their contribution in causing stroke recurrence, placental pathology in neurologically impaired children including children with ischemic perinatal stroke, quality of life and outcomes in children with epilepsy, predictors of outcome in children with neonatal seizures, and epidemiology of Rett syndrome in Manitoba. She has widely collaborated, both locally and internationally, in many important neurosciences and pediatric neurology initiatives to conduct and facilitate research with the view to enhance patient care and outcomes, including reviewing development of Rett syndrome/MECP2 Research Network along with other researchers at the University of Manitoba, participation in Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) funded initiatives in childhood epilepsy and demyelinating diseases and as a participating member of several professional associations and networks, including the Manitoba Neuroscience Chapter, Canadian Association of Child Neurology, Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation, Canadian Pediatric Surveillance Program, Pakistan Society of Neurology, Pakistan Pediatric Association, International Advisory Committee for the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association and International Child Neurology Society. She is a valuable member of the national and international Pediatric Stroke Network and the lead local investigator in Manitoba, Canada, for the International Pediatric Stroke Study (IPSS). Most importantly, as a member of pediatric stroke network, she had the privilege to participate in both international and national strategic and committee planning in the area of stroke including National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and National Institute of Health (NIH) Stroke Common Data Elements (Stroke CDE) project, development of evidence based guidelines and protocols for childhood stroke as a member of Best Pediatric Stroke Practices Taskforce for the Canadian Stroke Strategy and the Canadian Stroke Consortium and, in the development of Manitoba Provincial Stroke Strategy. She has given invited lectures and public reports on pediatric stroke at both national and international level. She is also recognized in the underdeveloped and developing countries, as evident from the fact that she has been invited to present at the Pakistan Institute of Neurological Sciences International Neurology Updates in 2007 and 2009 and at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan since 2000. She is an invited abstract grader for the American Heart Association sponsored International Stroke Conference and active member of the review committee board for the Journal of Pediatric Neurology, member International Advisory Committee for the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association and also invited reviewer for several other important medical journals. She is actively involved in training and supervision of both undergraduate and post graduate trainees for both clinical and research activities. Excellence in clinical care, teaching and continued development in research are her academic career goals.

Abstract

Abstract : Arterial Ischemic Stroke in Neonates and Children: An Update on Current Approaches