Salman Bhai MD

Dr. Salman Bhai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Director of the Neuromuscular Center at the Institute of Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM) at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Duke University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, where he earned multiple research grants including the Bertarelli Fellowship and a Wilderness Medicine Society grant. He completed his internship, neurology residency, and neuromuscular fellowship at Harvard: internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and residency and fellowship in a joint program between Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

Dr. Bhai specializes in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. He specifically focuses on patients with inflammatory and metabolic myopathies and those with immune checkpoint inhibitor complications. 

His research focuses on understanding how muscles communicate with other organ systems, particularly when the muscle is inflamed, like in myositis. The goal of his research is to understand better, diagnose, and treat patients with myositis. This will be achieved through myositis patients' exercise and muscle physiology studies by analyzing biospecimens for molecular perturbations. He also works to offer clinical trials for myositis patients