Ghazala Perven MD

Ghazala Perven, M.D, earned her medical degree at Dow Medical College in Pakistan, followed by an internship in the Department of Neurology at Civil Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. She then performed a residency in neurology at the University of Toledo in Ohio, where she served as Chief Resident, followed by a two-year fellowship in clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Perven served as a staff physician and clinical instructor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Toledo. She has also served as a clinical instructor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy, Dr. Ghazala Perven joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2015.

She has lectured on aspects of her field that include antiepileptic drugs, seizure semiology and trends in epilepsy care. She is the lead investigator or co-author of research publications on topics including the role of epileptic auras in refractory epilepsy.