Yama Akbari, MD, PhD

• Neurology Services

• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurology
• United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, Neurocritical Care

• English

• Associate Professor — Department of Neurology, UCI School of Medicine
• Associate Professor — Department of Neurological Surgery, UCI School of Medicine
• Associate Professor — Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, UCI School of Medicine
• Associate Professor — Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic
• Member — American Academy of Neurology
• Member — Neurocritical Care Society
• Member — Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Member — American Heart Association
• Member — Society for Neuroscience

• Physicians of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association — 2018-2023
• Faculty Innovation Fellow, 2021-2023 — UCI Beall Applied Innovation Lab
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship, 2021 — UC Irvine
• Athalie Clarke Research Associates Junior Physician/Scientist Award, 2018  — UCI School of Medicine
• Trailblazer Award, 2017 — National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Yama Akbari is a board-certified UCI Health neurologist who specializes in neurocritical care, stroke and traumatic brain injury. His clinical focus is on caring for patients in the neuro-intensive care unit at UCI Medical Center. 

He earned his medical degree and a PhD in neurobiology and behavior as part of the UCI School of Medicine's MD/PhD program. He then completed a neurology residency at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA followed by a fellowship in neurocritical care at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.

A physician-scientist, Akbara also conducts basic and translational research focused on consciousness, coma, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, blood flow and brain metabolism.

He sees patients at UCI Medical Center.

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