Delaram Safarpour, M.D., M.S.C.E., FAAN

  • Associate Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine
  • Medical director, deep brain stimulation program, OHSU Brain Institute

Biography

Dr. Safarpour earned her medical degree in Tehran, Iran in 2007; she then completed a year of post-doctoral fellowship in movement disorders at Yale University, followed by residency in neurology at Temple University Hospital. Being interested in the clinical and epidemiological aspects of Movement Disorders, she then earned a master’s degree in neuroepidemiology and completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Dr. Safarpour is the medical director of the Deep Brain Stimulation Program at OHSU. Her research focus is the effect of Deep brain stimulation in the treatment of movement disorders as well as gastrointestinal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. She oversees several clinical trials and has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on gastrointestinal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease as well as deep brain stimulation in the treatment of movement disorders. 

In her spare time, Dr. Safarapour enjoys reading novels and biking with her young sons and her husband.

Languages spoken: English, Farsi

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2007, Azad Tehran Medical University
    • M.S.C.E., 2015, University of Pennsylvania

  • Residency

    • Neurology, Temple University Hospital, 2014

  • Fellowship

    • Movement disorders, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

Memberships and associations:

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2015

Areas of interest

  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Atypical parkinsonian syndromes
  • Drug induced parkinsonism
  • Dystonia
  • Chorea
  • Essential tremor

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Longitudinal Changes in Patient- and Clinical-Reported Outcomes in Early Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 1, 2, 3, and 6 from the IDEA Study

    Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
    1. Andreea M. Rawlings
    2. Rosalind S. Chuang
    3. Jeremy D. Schmahmann
    4. Susan L. Perlman
    5. Liana S. Rosenthal
    6. Delaram Safarpour
    7. Hannah Casey
    8. Fay B. Horak
    9. Christopher M. Gomez

  • Changes in Anticholinergic Burden in Parkinson's Disease After Deep Brain Stimulation

    Neuromodulation
    1. Jocelyn Jiao
    2. Barbara H. Brumbach
    3. Nathan Hantke
    4. Morgan Wilhelmi
    5. Christian Bonilla
    6. Delaram Safarpour

  • Digital Measures of Postural Sway Quantify Balance Deficits in Spinocerebellar Ataxia

    Movement Disorders
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Daniel Muzyka
    3. Adam Jagodinsky
    4. James McNames
    5. Hannah Casey
    6. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    7. Kristen Sowalsky
    8. Delaram Safarpour
    9. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    10. Jeremy D. Schmahmann
    11. Liana S. Rosenthal
    12. Susan Perlman
    13. Fay B. Horak
    14. Christopher M. Gomez

  • Standing Balance Conditions and Digital Sway Measures for Clinical Trials of Friedreich's Ataxia

    Movement Disorders
    1. Hannah L. Casey
    2. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    3. Daniel Muzyka
    4. James McNames
    5. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    6. Kristen Sowalsky
    7. Delaram Safarpour
    8. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    9. Jeremy D. Schmahmann
    10. Liana S. Rosenthal
    11. Susan Perlman
    12. Christian Rummey
    13. Fay B. Horak
    14. Christopher M. Gomez

  • Adjusting for Underrepresentation Reveals Widespread Underestimation of Parkinson's Disease Symptom Burden

    Movement Disorders
    1. Ali G. Hamedani
    2. Peggy Auinger
    3. Allison W. Willis
    4. Delaram Safarpour
    5. David Shprecher
    6. Natividad Stover
    7. Thyagarajan Subramanian
    8. Leslie Cloud

  • An Overview of Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Parkinsonian Syndromes

    Seminars in Neurology
    1. Lauren Talman
    2. Delaram Safarpour

  • Identifying the therapeutic zone in globus pallidus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Marshall T. Holland
    2. Jocelyn Jiao
    3. Alessandra Mantovani
    4. Shannon Anderson
    5. Katherine A. Mitchell
    6. Delaram Safarpour
    7. Kim J. Burchiel

  • Case Report

    Frontiers in Neurology
    1. Michelle Cohen
    2. Madeline Nguyen
    3. Chad D. Nix
    4. Brendan Case
    5. Joshua P. Nickerson
    6. Jacqueline Bernard
    7. Julia Durrant
    8. Delaram Safarpour
    9. Tarvez Tucker
    10. Kamila Vagnerova
    11. William B. Messer

  • Gastrointestinal Motility and Response to Levodopa in Parkinson's Disease

    Movement Disorders
    1. Delaram Safarpour
    2. Barbara H. Brumbach
    3. Monica Arena
    4. Joseph Quinn
    5. Sarah Diamond
    6. Jay G. Nutt
    7. Ronald F. Pfeiffer

  • Surrogates for rigidity and PIGD MDS-UPDRS subscores using wearable sensors

    Gait and Posture
    1. Delaram Safarpour
    2. Marian L. Dale
    3. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    4. Lauren Talman
    5. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    6. Fay B. Horak
    7. Martina Mancini

  • Measuring freezing of gait during daily-life

    Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
    1. Martina Mancini
    2. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    3. Samuel Stuart
    4. Carolin Curtze
    5. Fay B. Horak
    6. Delaram Safarpour
    7. John G. Nutt

  • Role of directional configuration in deep brain stimulation for essential tremor

    Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
    1. Venka Veerappan
    2. Shannon Anderson
    3. Delaram Safarpour
    4. Amie L. Hiller

  • Botulinum Toxin Treatment of Neuropathic Pain

    Seminars in Neurology
    1. Shivam Om Mittal
    2. Delaram Safarpour
    3. Bahman Jabbari

  • Nursing home and end-of-life care in Parkinson disease

    Neurology
    1. Delaram Safarpour
    2. Dylan P. Thibault
    3. Cori L. Desanto
    4. Cynthia M. Boyd
    5. E. Ray Dorsey
    6. Brad A. Racette
    7. Allison W. Willis

  • Botulinum Toxin A (Botox) for Treatment of Proximal Myofascial Pain in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

    Pain Medicine
    1. D. Safarpour
    2. Bahman Jabbari