Ali Mir

Consultant Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist; Chairman, Department of Pediatric Neurology

Ali Mir is a consultant pediatric neurologist and epileptologist in the Neuroscience Center of King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam, where he chairs the Department of Pediatric Neurology and directs the epilepsy fellowship program. His clinical and research work centers on drug-resistant epilepsy in children, including epilepsy surgery, the ketogenic diet, vagus nerve stimulation and genetic diagnosis. He is first author of studies on outcomes of resective surgery in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (Epilepsia Open, 2023), diagnostic evaluation of epileptic spasms in the era of next-generation sequencing (Epileptic Disorders, 2024), adverse events during hospital-based ketogenic diet initiation (Epilepsia Open, 2020), and the use of perampanel in myoclonic seizures and epilepsia partialis continua (Epileptic Disorders, 2021 and 2022).