DR. REZA PIRSAHELI

Dr. Reza Pirsaheli graduated from Medical School in 1999 with honors and a high GPA. After graduation he finished Internal Medicine Residency at Southern Illinois University. During his Internal Medicine residency he found great interest in Neurology and finished his residency at the University of Florida and University of California, Irvine. After completion of two residencies, he completed two fellowships in Vascular Neurology and Neurocritical care at Stanford University. 

After 8 years of comprehensive training he joined the Mercy medical group and worked over 11 years as a Neurointesivist and took care of numerous patients with Strokes, Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Brain infection, Seizure and Traumatic Brain Injury, etc. He was also the Director of Stroke for over 6 years at Mercy Folsom Hospital and Chairman of Neurology at Mercy General Hospital.  

He also specialized in comprehensive training at the National Laser Institute for Botox, Fillers, Laser, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and PDO threading. 

After several years of training and working in the hospital, he opened his medical center on January 2nd, 2025 to serve the community as a neurologist and primary care physician. Dr. Pirsaheli’s goal and passion is to provide the best quality care to all his patients. 

Internal Medicine, Neurology, Vascular Neurology and Neurocritical care

American Academy of Neurology, American Stroke Association 

Dr. Pirsaheli received a recognition award from a patient's family from the Dignity Health Foundation in May, 2024. 

1. Poster presentation in Neurocritical care meeting 2012: Survival of a Patient with Propofol Infusion Syndrome and Prolonged Asystole Using ECMO.

2. Poster presentation in Neurocritical care meeting 2012: Quantitative Brain Diffusion- Weighted Imaging after Cardiac Arrest Predicts the Degree of Recovery in Survivors: Validation in a Multi-Center Study.     

Michael Mlynash, Sevan Komshian, Reza Pirsaheli, Ami Okada, Irina Eyngorn, Charlene Chen, Stephan Mayer, James F. Meschia, Richard Bernstein, Ona Wu, David M. Greer, Christine A.C. Wijman

3. Autoimmune neuropathy with Auto-antibodies to TS-HDS in research presentation day at University of California, Irvine. 

4. Poster presentation in ATS (American Thoracic Society): the sensitivity and specificity of FDG-PET imaging in differentiating non-small cell lung cancer from benign solitary nodules in a region with a high endemic rate of Histoplasmosis in San Francisco.