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 at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Paydarfar earned his bachelor’s degree in physics, graduating summa cum laude, 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 and Harvard Medical School and a residency in physiology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Paydarfar previously served as Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and as an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. He is also a fellow of the American Neurological Association and serves as an investigator for the Clayton Foundation for Research. His current research focuses on developing novel biosensors, signal-processing algorithms, and user interfaces that enable clinicians and researchers to track and predict the health of individual patients as well as entire populations. This approach allows doctors to forecast and advert adverse disease trajectories while also testing the impact of these strategies on health outcomes.