David Paydarfar, MD

Clinical Biography

David Paydarfar, MD, is a board-certified neurologist and the Director of UT Health Austin’s Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences. He is also a part of the Pharyngeal High-Resolution Manometry care team. In his role, he is responsible for establishing the initial infrastructure to support premier subspecialty programs in clinical neuroscience, working closely with the chairs of psychiatry, neurosurgery, and others committed to these important ventures. Additionally, Dr. Paydarfar is a professor and serves as the Chair for the Dell Medical School Department of Neurology.

Dr. Paydarfar earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Duke University and his medical degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a residency in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and a residency in physiology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Physiology.

Dr. Paydarfar previously served as Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and as Associate Faculty of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. He is also a Fellow of the American Neurological Association and an Investigator of the Clayton Foundation for Research. His current research includes developing novel biosensors, signal-processing algorithms, and user interfaces that will enable clinicians and researchers to track and predict the health of individual patients as well as entire populations. This approach will allows doctors to forecast (and advert) adverse disease trajectories and test the impact of such a strategy on health outcomes.