Saad A. Shakir, M.D.,DLFAPA

CURRICULUM VITAE

Board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology)

(Currently self employed as an independent contractor)

Email:aduloa@r.postjobfree.com

Recently retired from Silicon Valley TMS (September 16, 2022).

Most recently I was chief medical officer

Also Chief of Innovative therapy including TMS at Refresh Mental Health Group

and Silicon Valley TMS

Saad A. Shakir, M.D. and Associates

oIntegrated Clinical Neurosciences

oSilicon Valley TMS San Jose (Main Office)

oSilicon Valley TMS of San Francisco

oSilicon Valley TMS of Monterey Bay

oSilicon Valley TMS of East Bay

oSilicon Valley TMS of Mountain View

oSilicon Valley TMS of Corte Madera

2039 Forest Ave., Ste. 201

San Jose, CA 95128 (Main Office)

Telephone:408-***-****

Facsimile: 408-***-****

525 South Drive, Ste. 211

Mountain View, CA 94040

Telephone:650-***-****

Facsimile: 650-***-****

595 Buckingham Way, Ste. 505

San Francisco, CA 94132

Telephone:415-***-****

Facsimile: 415-***-****

2425 Porter Street, Ste. 11

Soquel, CA 95073

Telephone:831-***-****

Facsimile: 831-***-****

5776 Stoneridge Mall Rd, Ste 376

Pleasanton CA 94588

Telephone:925-***-****

Facsimile: 925-***-****

100 Meadowcreed Dr., Ste 115

Corte Madera, CA 94925

Telephone:415-***-****

Facsimile: 415-***-****

Websites : www.saadshakirmd.com

www.siliconvalleytms.com

Recent PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1-Chief of TMS of Refresh Mental Health Group.

Private Practice Group: Silicon Valley TMS, Saad A. Shakir, M.D. and Associates- Founder and medical director: a small group practice providing a multidisciplinary team of clinicians including, medical personnel, mid-level providers, psychologists, counselors and other ancillary staff delivering individually tailored treatments for patients and their families. 1994-Present.

2-Silicon Valley Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): founder and medical director providing state of the arts, FDA approved treatment that is noninvasive, without systemic side effects for the treatment of depression. Jan 2011-Present. We have 17 treatment systems in 5 locations.

3-Past President of Northern California TMS Society March 2012-Present.

4-Founding board members of Clinical TMS Society (National and International TMS Society) March 2013 – May 2017

5-Chief medical officer for Care Program for Refugees (CPR): Developed Summer 2014. A nonprofit program that Dr. Shakir co-developed to help devastated victims of trauma and war as well as refugees in war-torn countries; the program includes educational and therapeutic components to help individuals in areas of the world where they do not have access to appropriate medical or psychiatric assessments and treatments.

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

- Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine: started in 1978 as clinical instructor, clinical assistant professor, most recent in 2010 as Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus.

-Past President of the Iraqi medical science Association in the United States (IMSA- USA), www.imsausa.org. (2010-2012)

- Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine,

El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, California (1983/1984)

- Medical Director, Spectrum CMHC Medical Group

Los Altos, CA 94024 (1985-1994)

- Medical Director, St. Louise Hospital, Psychiatric Partial Hospital Program, San Jose, California (June 1994- January 1996)

- Consulting Faculty: California School of Marriage& Family Therapy

(1985-1990)

- Private practice, individual practice, association, and small group practice In Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, California (July 1978- 1985)

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Chief Resident, Acting Chief of the Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic- Senior Resident Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, CA July 1, 1977- June 30, 1978

Fellowship in chemical dependency and substance abuse: At Santa Clara Valley Medical Center January 1, 1977- June 30, 1977

Senior Resident, Adult Psychiatry Clinic, Stanford University Medical Center and Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, CA July 1, 1976-June 30, 1977

First and Second Year Adult Psychiatry Resident, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 722 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 July 1, 1974-June 30, 1976

Resident in Neuro-Psychiatry, Medical City Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq

July 1, 1973-June 30, 1974

Rotating Internship, Medical City teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq

July 1972-June 1973(3 months Internal Medicine, 3 months Neurology, 6 weeks Orthopedic Surgery, 6 weeks General Surgery, 4 weeks Coronary Care Unit, 8 weeks Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Baghdad University Medical School, Baghdad, Iraq

September 1966-June 1972 Obtained M.B.Ch.B with highest distinction-First in class of 300

Additional Medical Education: Visiting Medical Student, Middlesex Hospital, London, England, Summer 1970

HONORARY FELLOWSHIPS

- Distinguished Life Fellow of American Psychiatric Association (LDFAPA) – May 2019

-Elected to Fellowship. Fellow, American Psychiatric Association 1990 (F.A.P.A.)

-Fellow, American College of International Physicians 1990 (F.A.C.I.P.)

-Life Achievement Award – IMSA Sept. 2018

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

Certification of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, January 1979,

“Diplomate of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology”

State of California Medical Licenses No. A030321 (1976-Present)

State and Maine Medical License No. 8413 (1975-1976)

FLEX Examination, December 1975, State of Maine

Educational Council for Foreign Medical graduates (E.C.F.M.G.) Examination in February 1972

Certificate No.171-899-8

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Psychiatric Association

Santa Clara County Medical Society

American College of Executive Physicians

California Medical Association

Northern California Psychiatric Society

California Psychiatric Society

Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society (NCGPS) officer and president elect from 1978-1984

Cofounder and Member of IMSA, previously IMCA (Iraqi Medical College Alumni) 1998 - Present

PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

TMS Study for OCD 2020

Exceed Trial for Lexapro 9-2002/-10-2003

Algorithm for Merdia in the management of obesity 09-98/06/99

Phase III, Open Label Study of Donepezil for treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease 1996-1997

Open Label Study of Nefazodone for treatment of Depression 1994-1995

Double Blind Multi center Study of Fluvoxamine in the Treatment of Panic Disorders 1993-1994

Open Label Trial of Cogenex in Alzheimer’s Dementia 1993

Multi-center Trial for the Study of Sertraline for the Treatment of Depression 1991-1992

“Intensive Group Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Patients” Group Journal, Summer 1990

“Group Psychotherapy as and Adjunct to Lithium Maintenance” presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, May 1980

“Group Therapy as an Adjunct to Lithium Maintenance”, American Journal of Psychiatry, April 1979

“Personality Dynamics of Stabilized Manic-Depressive Illness” (unpublished) 1979

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE & CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Chief Resident in Neurology, Baghdad University Medical City Hospital, July 1973-June 1974

Acting Chief of Consultation-Liaison, Psychiatry Service, Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, May 1977-June 1977

Chief Resident at Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry with role as Acting Director of Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic at Stanford, July 1977-December 1977

Assistant Director of the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital, March 1, 1977-June 30, 1977

Assistant Ward Chief-4 B2 (Co-educational General Psychiatry Milicu), August 1978-July 1981(part-time)

Senior Psychiatrist, fair Oaks Mental Health Clinic, Sunnyvale, CA, October 1977-January 1981(part-time)

Vice Chief, Department of Psychiatry, El Camino Hospital, Mt. View, CA 1982-1983

Secretary & Treasurer, Department of Psychiatry, El Camino Hospital, Mt. View, CA, 1981-1982

ADDITIONAL PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (As an independent contractor/ consultant)

SPEAKERS BUREAU

1. Visiting Professor Program with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

2. National Speaker with Forest Pharmaceutical

3. Bristol-Myers Squibb Neuroscience Advisory Board Northern California

4. National Speaker with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

5. National Speaker with Eli Lilly and Company

6. National Speaker with Organon, Inc.

7. National Speakers with GlaxoSmithKline

8. CME, Inc. National Speaker and Faculty

9. National Speaker Bureau Jansen Pharmaceuticals

10. Speakers Bureau Abbott Pharmaceuticals

11. National Speaker Jones Pharma, Inc.

12. Medical World Conferences Faculty

13. National Faculty “MEASURE” program for Bipolar Illness

14. Speaker for Shire Pharmaceuticals

15. Speaker for Novartis Pharmaceuticals

16. Speaker for Neuronetics – TMS

17. Speaker for Brainsway - TMS

OTHER

1. Member of Advisory inpatient Council, Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford, CA, 1985-1990

2. Member of “Hospital Development Committee,” El Camino Hospital, 1984-1986, Mountain View, CA

3. Utilization Review Committee Department of Psychiatry, El Camino Hospital, 1982-1986, Mountain View, CA

4. Board of Directors, Miramonte Mental Health Association, 1990-1993, Palo Alto, CA

5. Board of Directors, Spectrum Comprehensive Mental Health Medical Group, 1984-1994, Los Altos, CA

6. Advisory Board for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, nationally and the Pacific Northwest 1995-2002

7. Co-Chair of the National Physicians Advisory Board 2002-2005

8. Advisory Board Forest Pharmaceuticals 1998-2003

PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS:

-Over 9000 presentations and lectures, seminars, CME presentations speaker training programs, locally, regionally, and nationally (locally in the San Francisco Bay Area, regionally as well as nationally and internationally); attended and presented at many seminars and workshops on various subjects in psychiatry (details available upon request)

- IMSA International Internet University: founded and developed in collaboration with Wired International, educational programs that will be packaged and delivered through the latest advances in informational technology (IT) to doctors and other healthcare providers in developing countries, free of charge to enhance the highest standards of education in a variety of fields of medicine.

- In May 2010 led a medical mission to help refugees in Iraq and Jordan that were displaced by the war, providing consultation, as well as training programs to doctors in those countries who serve those refugees.

- CME Board Review in Psychiatry “developed and taught a National course for psychiatrist taking the Boards for psychiatry on the subject of Anxiety Disorders 2005-2006.

- Faculty to the US Congress in Psychiatry in New Orleans, Louisiana Nov. 2006

- Faculty to the US Congress in Psychiatry in Orlando, Florida Oct. 2007

- May 2011 Global Diaspora Forum organized under the auspices of the Secretary of State Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton, participated as a global medical leadership panel, as a presenter representing leadership in medicine as president of the Iraqi medical science Association in the United States (IMSA-USA)

OTHER PERSONAL INTERESTS

Youth sports coach for over 20 years coaching soccer, basketball, softball and Little League

baseball. On multiple occasions voted the best volunteer youth sports coach in Santa Clara County.

SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS:

*2001 Stanford University School of Medicine “Clinical Faculty Service Award”.

*Honorary Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board in California, for Health Care Reform 2002

*2003 “Best Physicians in San Francisco, Bay Area

*2003 “Physician of the Year” in Northern California

*2003 “Best Physicians in Silicon Valley”

*2004 “Top Doctor in Silicon Valley”

*2005 “Top Doctor in Silicon Valley”

*2004 “Top Psychiatrist”

*2005 “Top Psychiatrist”

*2006 “Top Doctor, The A List”

*2006 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2007 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2007 “Best Doctor in San Jose”

*2007 “Best Doctor in Silicon Valley”

*2008 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2009 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2010 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2010 “Compassionate Doctor Award"

*2010 “Top Doctor in Silicon Valley"

*2000-2010 Top Doctor for 10 Years”

*2011 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2012 “Regional Top Doctor”

*2013 “Regional Top Doctor”

*2013 “America’s Top Psychiatrist”

*2014 “Top 10 Psychosomatic Medicine Specialist”

*2015 “America’s Top Physicians”

*2016 “America’s Top Physicians”

*2017 “Top Doctors”

*2018 “Top Doctors”

*2019 “Top Doctor for 10 Years”

*2019 “Distinguished Life Fellow of American Psychiatric Association”

*2020 “Top Doctor for 10 Years”

*2021 “America’s Best Doctors, Top Psychiatrist”

MEDICAL SCHOOL AWARDS

“First Graduate in Medical School” (class of 300)

Graduated with “Honors” and “Highest Distinction”

“First Graduate in Internal Medicine”

“First Graduate in Surgery”

“Second Graduate in Obstetrics and Gynecology”

“Highest Honors & First in class in Forensic Medicine”

“Highest Honors in Public Health”

“Highest Honors in Psychiatry”

“Highest Honors in Dermatology”

“Highest Honors in Diseases of Ear, Nose and throat”

“Highest Honors in Microbiology”

“Highest Honors in Parasitology”

“Highest Honors in Microanatomy and Embryology”

“Highest Honors in Anatomy”

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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