Dilawer Abbas, MD
Specialties: Neurology

Board-certified neurologist Dilawer H. Abbas, MD, will join St. Joseph Medical Group Jan. 7, 2013. Dr. Abbas is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and is a member of the American Society of Neuroimaging.

Dr. Abbas will come to SJMG from Dole V.A. Hospital in Wichita, Kan., where he has served as a staff neurologist since 2008. Prior to that, he was a practicing neurologist and neurological consultant with Via Christi Health System, also in Wichita, and he was a consultant and interpreter for neurology MRI at Via Christi Regional Medical Center on the St. Joseph campus.

Dr. Abbas received a bachelor's a degree from D. J. Science College in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1967. He earned a medical degree from Dow Medical College, also in Karachi, in 1971. He then ventured to Buffalo, N.Y., where he completed an internship at Mercy Hospital in 1973 and a neurology residency at State University of New York in 1976.

Hamid S. Hamdi, MD
Specialties: Neurology

Hamid S. Hamdi, MD, a board-certified neurologist, has joined the neurology team at St. Joseph Medical Group. Dr. Hamdi is also board certified in neurorehabilitation.

Before coming to Fort Wayne, Dr. Hamdi was a staff physician at the New York University Medical Center and Hospital for Joint Diseases and taught as a clinical assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine. Prior to that, he worked at St. Johns Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., and at the Lafayette Home Hospital and St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Lafayette, Ind.

Dr. Hamdi completed his undergraduate studies at St. Patrick's College in Karachi, Pakistan, before earning a medical degree from Dow University of Health Sciences (formerly Dow Medical College) also in Karachi in 1985. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Lincoln Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., in 1994, and he completed a residency in neurology at Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, N.Y. in 1997, where he served as chief resident in neurology. He completed a fellowship in neurorehabilitation at NYU's Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute in 1999.

Bhupendra K. Shah, MD
Specialties: Neurology

Bhupendra K. Shah, MD, joined the St. Joseph Medical Group neurology team in June 2009. After four years at Neurological Clinic Inc., Dr. Shah started his own practice, Bhupendra K. Shah, MD, P.C., in 1984, which he operated for 25 years until joining SJMG.

Dr. Shah earned a medical degree from B.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad, India, in 1971. He completed a rotating internship at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago in 1973 and a residency in pathology at Bronx Lebanon Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., in 1974. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha in 1977 and a residency in neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1980.

Dr. Shah is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Indiana State Medical Association and the Fort Wayne/Allen County Medical Society.

Wahid Tazudeen, MD
Specialties: Neurology

A native of Danville, Ill., Wahid Tazudeen, MD, joined St. Joseph Medical Group in January 2013. A board-certified neurologist, Dr. Tazudeen completed a bachelor's degree in biology from St. Louis University in 2001. He earned a medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia in 2006 and completed a preliminary medicine internship at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio, in 2007. Dr. Tazudeen completed a neurology residency in 2011 and a neurophysiology fellowship in 2012 at the University of Illinois/Chicago.

His clinical interest within the field include the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.

Dr. Tazudeen is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Medical Association.