Waqas Gilani, MD

Dr. Gilani earned bachelor’s degrees in neuroscience and biochemistry from the University of Toronto in Canada in 2005 and his medical degree from Foundation University Medical College in Pakistan in 2011. He completed an internal medicine residency at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., in 2016 and a neurology residency at JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey, in 2019. He recently completed a neurophysiology fellowship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Dr. Gilani has served as a clinical research fellow in the Emergency Medicine Department of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and in the Department of Neurology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Gilani has a special interest in research in comparative demographics and studies of underserved populations. In his free time, he enjoys photography, aerial photography, cooking and hiking.