Farhan Siddiq, M.D.

Dr. Siddiq completed his HSSC degree in Biology/Chemistry at the Islamabad College for Boys and then spent six years at the Rawalpindi Medical College in Pakistan where he received his MBBS degree. He then worked in surgery in Pakistan until he came to the United States in 2003 to do an Internal Medicine internship at the University of North Dakota, followed by a Neurology residency at Thomas Jefferson University. Upon completion of his Neurology residency in 2007, he joined the internship program at the University of Minnesota. His clinical areas of interest are cerebrovascular disease, cerebral aneurysms, AVMs and radiosurgery.

He is a member of the AAN. Awards and honors include the First Prize poster presentation at Frank Lo Research Meeting held in Grand Forks, April 2004 and as the chief resident in Neurology at Thomas Jefferson University he received the Resident Research Award at the AAN annual meeting in Boston in 2007.

Publications

1. Siddiq F, Memon MZ, Vazquez G, Safdar A, Qureshi AI. “Comparison between Primary Angioplasty and Stent Placement for Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease:Meta-analysis of case series”. Accepted in Neurosurgery. In Press

2. Taylor RA, Siddiq F, Memon MZ, Qureshi AI, Vazquez G, Hayakawa M, Chaloupka JC. “Vertebral artery ostial stent placement for atherosclerotic stenosis in 72 consecutive patients: clinical outcomes
and follow-up results”. Neuroradiology. 2009 Aug;51(8):531-9. Epub 2009 May 13.

3. Siddiq F, Vazquez G, Suri MF, Taylor RA, Wojak JC, Chaloupka JC, Qureshi AI. “Comparison of Primary Angioplasty and Stent Placement for Treating Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: A Multicenter Study”. Stroke. 2008 Sep;39(9):2505-10

4. Taylor RA, Siddiq F, Suri F, Martin CO, Hayakawa M, Chaloupka JC. “Risk Factors for In-Stent Restenosis After Vertebral Ostium Stenting”. J Endovasc Ther. 2008 Apr;15(2):203-12.

5. Siddiq F, Jalil A, McDaniel C, Brock DG, Pineda CC, Bell RD, Lee K. “Effectiveness of Factor IX Complex Concentrate in Reversing Warfarin Associated Coagulopathy for Intracerebral Hemorrhage.” Neurocrit Care. 2008;8(1):36-41.

6. Hanspal E, Muppidi S, Siddiq F, Mandel S, Brill C. “An Overview of Fragile X Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome”. Prac Neurology. Sept 2007;14-15.

7. Lee K, Muppidi S, Siddiq F, Brock DG, Pineda CC, Rodney DB. “Beyond Intravenous Thrombolysis”. CNS Spectr. 2007;12(8):609-614.

8. Siddiq F, Malik AR, Smego RA Jr. “Percutaneous computed tomography-guided needle aspiration drainage of spinal epidural abscess”. South Med J. 2006 Dec;99(12):1406-7.

9. Siddiq F, Chowfin A, Tight R, Shamoun A, Smego R. “Medical versus surgical management of spinal epidural abscess.” Arch Intern Med.2004; 164: 2409-2412.

Book Chapters

1. Siddiq F, Brock DG. “Nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.” In: UpToDate, Rose, BD (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA, 2008.

2. Siddiq F, Brock DG. “Perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.” In: UpToDate, Rose, BD (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA, 2008.

3. Siddiq F, Qureshi AI, Gomez CR. “Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Stenosis.” Chapter 5. Text Book of Interventional Neurology. December 2008.

4. Siddiq F, Chaudhry B, Qureshi AI. “Intracranial Atherosclerosis.” Chapter 15. A Primer on Stroke Prevention Treatment: An Overview Based on AHA/ASA Guidelines, Larry B. Goldstein, Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.

Oral Presentation

1. “Comparison of Primary Angioplasty and Stent Placement for Treating Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: A Multicenter Study”. CNS; Orlando, 2008

Abstract Presentation

1. Qureshi AI, Siddiq F, Suri MFK, Taylor RA, Chaloupka JC. “Intracranial Stenosis in the Young Patients is a Distinct Syndrome. A multicenter review.” AAN Chicago, 2008.

2. Siddiq F, Memon Z, Qureshi AI, “Comparison of Primary Angioplasty and Stent Placement for Intracranial Atherosclerosis”. AAN meeting, Chicago, 2008.

3. Siddiq F, Suri MF, Taylor RA, Chaloupka JC, Qureshi AI. “Rates and Predictors of Angiographic Restenosis Following Intracranial Angioplasty or Stent Placement. A Multicenter Study.” International Stroke Conference 2008.

4. Siddiq F, Suri MF, Taylor RA, Chaloupka JC, Qureshi AI. “Comparison of Primary Angioplasty and Stent Placement for Intracranial Atherosclerosis.” International Stroke Conference 2008.

5. Siddiq F, Suri MF, Qureshi AI. “Primary Angioplasty is not Inferior to Stent Placement for Treatment of Intracranial Atherosclerosis. An Analysis of 919 Procedures.” International Stroke Conference 2008.

6. Klein B, Young WB, Siddiq F, Sperling M. “Relationship between Migraine, Epileptic Seizures, and Pseudoseizures”. 61st Annual Meeting, American Epilepsy Society, November 30 - December 4, 2007, Philadelphia, PA.

7. Mippidi S, Siddiq F, Pineda CC, Lee K, Brock DG. “Superior Sagittal Sinus Involvement in Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Increases Risk of Hemorrhagic Infarct and Seizures”. 132nd annual meeting, American Neurological Association.

8. Siddiq F, Taylor RA, Muppidi S, Lee K, Bell RD, Chaloupka JC. “TIA-free Survival Analysis after Vertebral Artery Ostial Stenting”. 59th annual American Academy of Neurology meeting, Boston, MA.

9. Siddiq F, Gardner CJ, Jalil A, Brock DG, Friedman D. “Are Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome (RPLS) and Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Misnomers?”. 59th annual meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Boston, MA.

10. Siddiq F, Taylor RA, Lee K, Bell RD, Chaloupka JC “Risk Factors for Restenosis after Balloon Angioplasty and Stenting of the Vertebral Aretery stenosis”. 59th Annual meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Boston, MA.
11. Siddiq F, Jalil A, Bell RD, Pineda CC, Brock DG, Lee K. “Activated Farctor Nine is more effective in reversing the INR in patients with on anticoagulation then FFP alone”. 4th Neurocritical Care Society Annual Meeting, Poster Number 42, November 2006.

12. Siddiq F, Taylor RA, Lee K, Chaloupka JC. “Cobalt Chromium Stenting for the Ostium of the Vertebral Artery Stenosis”. 56th annual meeting, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Chicago, IL.

13. Siddiq F, Malik AR, Tomita M, Santoro T. “Enhanced 5-lipoxygenase activity in the hippocampi of cognitively impaired, autoimmune MRL-lpr/lpr lupus mice”. Chicago 2004.

14. Siddiq F, Malik AR, Tomita M, Santoro T. “Enhanced 5-lipoxygenase activity in the hippocampi of cognitively impaired, autoimmune MRL-lpr/lpr lupus mice”. Poster presented at CSCR/MWAFMR Combined Annual Meeting in Chicago on April 15th, 2004.

15. Siddiq F, Chowfin A, Tight R, Shamoun A, Smego R. “A Comparison of Medical Versus Surgical Management of Spinal Epidural Abscess: Review of 57 Case”. Regional ACP, Bismark, ND, September 2003.

16. Siddiq F, Mehdi S. “Case report: Side effects of Gleevac therapy in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia”. Poster presentation at regional ACP meeting in Bismark in September 2003.

Awards and Achievements

First Prize poster presentation at Frank Lo Research Meeting held in Grand Forks, April 2004.

Resident Research Award: AAN annual meeting; Boston April 2007.

Dr Seljeskog Research Award: University of Minnesota, 2009.