Athar Naveed Malik, MD PhD

Athar Naveed Malik, M.D., Ph.D., is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist.  He completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 2005.  He then enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Harvard Medical School and subsequently completed his Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 2013 and his M.D. in 2015.  His Ph.D. thesis entitled “Genome-wide identification and characterization of stimulus-responsive enhancers in the nervous system” led to scientific publications in prestigious journals including Nature, Cell, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Genetics, and Neuron.  He completed his residency in neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and is an Assistant Professor at Brown University. He has won numerous awards and grants for his research and plans to pursue a career in academic neurosurgery.  He completed Hajj in 2018, is a moosi, and has served MKA at local, regional, and national levels.