UNC Neurology is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Anahit Mehrabyan from Clinical Assistant Professor to Clinical Associate Professor based on excellence in clinical activity.
Dr. Mehrabyan’s work focuses on muscular disorders, both acquired and genetic. The impact of her work is demonstrated by the Muscular Dystrophy Association interdisciplinary clinic she established at UNC in 2017. This clinic has transformed muscular dystrophy patient care at UNC and has been essential to the education of residents and fellows in the department. She also received the UNC Department of Neurology Teaching Award in 2023.
Dr. Mehrabyan earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Yerevan State Medical University in Yeravan, Armenia in 1994. She completed her residency in Adult Neurology from Yerevan State Medical University in 1997 and completed an internship in Neurology at the Landesnervenklinik in Salzburg in 1999. She completed a second internship in Neurology at the University Hospital of Vienna in 2001, a clinical research fellowship in diabetic neuropathies from the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic diseases in 2004, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine until 2005, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of cell and Molecular Physiology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School until 2006, a postdoctoral research associate in the Neurosensory Disorders Center, School of Dentistry until 2009, Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology until 2010, and a research associate in the Department of Radiology and Neurology in 2012. She completed a second Residency in Adult Neurology from UNC, Department of Neurology in 2016 and a Fellowship in Neuromuscular Medicine from Penn State, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 2017. Dr. Mehrabyan became an Assistant Professor on the fixed term track in the Department of Neurology at UNC in 2017.