Washington University School of Medicine

Samiya Rashid, DO

Samiya works in the Adult Epilepsy Section of the Department of Neurology at Washington Universtiy School of Medicine.

Medical Training

Samiya Rashid graduated with Honors from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Behavioral Biology. After graduating from college she worked at the Baylor College of Medicine in the Cain Foundation Laboratories in pediatric epilepsy research, under John Swann, Ph.D. There she used the tetanus toxin model of epilepsy in rat pups for her research. She then attended medical school at the University of North Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. She then moved to Chicago where she did her neurology training at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She decided to do a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. However, upon her arrival within the first 2 months she realized her interest was in the field of epilepsy. She therefore completed two years of fellowship there, primarily in epilepsy. Four months of that time she trained at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. She participated in two research projects at the Medical College of Wisconsin with her mentor Manoj Raghavan, M.D., Ph.D. in EEG analysis.

Selected Publications

Rashid, S., Swann, J.W. Insights into the Tetanus Toxin Model of Early-Onset Epilepsy from Long Term Video Monitoring During Anticonvulsant Therapy, Developmental Brain Research, 1999.

Lee, C.L., Hannay, J., Hrachovy, R., Rashid, S., Antalffy, B., Swann, J.W., Spatial Learning Deficits Without Hippocampal Neuronal Loss in a Model of Early-Onset Epilepsy, Neuroscience, 2001.

Samiya Rashid, DO, Linda Allen, RN, Michelle Tisch, RN, and Manoj Raghavan, MD, PhD. Seizure Probabilities During ON and OFF Periods of Chronic Intermittent Vagus Nerve Stimulation. Abstract presented at American Epilepsy Society in December 2006.

Raghavan, M.; Rashid, S.; Mueller, W. Interictal low-frequency EEG spectral power has higher correlation to areas of seizure onset than epileptic spikes. Abstract to be presented at American Epilepsy Society in December 2007.