Zahra’s family says their next goal is to have her eat by herself in the next couple of weeks and hopefully they’ll see her crawling shortly after.
She’s making huge developmental strides.”
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Right now, Zahra is still going through therapy to learn how to crawl, eat by herself and catch up developmentally. “Patients who have had an anatomic hemispherectomy, they are no less creative, no less able cognitively to contribute to society and keep up with their peers,” Dr.
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“It was one of the happier moments of my life after when I saw her that she’s moving her body and things like that,” Waheed said.Įven with only half of her brain, since Zahra is so young, doctors explained her remaining brain will adapt to do whatever a full brain can, she just might have a little less control over certain parts of her body in the future. Zahra stopped having seizures and started developing properly after her surgery. Raskin is well known as a physician leader in Hackensack-Palisades Medical Center where he is a past president of the Medical Staff, past chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology, and has served on the Board of Trustees of the hospital for many years. “So she was not able to recognize me as a dad and her mother.” Jeffrey Raskin, MD Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases. “Whenever the severe seizures would come up on her, it actually cleaned her memory,” Waheed said. She may be crying today, but she’s acting just like any other baby would, compared to last year, when she experienced up to 10 seizures an hour which essentially disabled her and halted her development. “She doesn’t crawl, she doesn’t walk, but we are very happy to see her without any kind of seizure,” the girl’s father Waheed Chuahdary said. The little girl’s parents are extremely thankful that their daughter will get a fair shot at life.
The procedure is called a hemispherectomy and it was the first one in 15 years to be performed in Indiana.
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Raskin is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and is Board Certified in Gastroenterology.INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A little girl is now seizure free one year after surgeons removed half of her brain during a rare procedure at Riley Hospital for Children. Raskin is the current physician champion of Infection Control, where he has pioneered and instituted effective policies that have led to a major reduction in Clostridium Difficile infection in the hospital. Raskin is the current chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Committee at Hackensack-Palisades Medical Center, a position he has fulfilled for the past 10 years. Raskin has vast experience in treating patients with gastrointestinal illnesses and has performed thousands of endoscopic procedures.ĭr. Raskin has been practicing Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Northern New Jersey for greater than 25 years. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York, and then completed his Fellowship in Gastroenterology at SUNY- Downstate Medical Center in New York in 1992.ĭr. He went on to do his training in Internal Medicine at St. Jeffrey Raskin completed medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-NJ in 1987. He is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Gastroenterologic Association, and is Board Certified in Gastroenterology.ĭr. Tepler has been involved in the teaching and supervision of Gastroenterology Fellows at the Hackensack-Palisades Medical Center, and was recently featured on NJ Channel 12 News where he was interviewed on Colorectal Cancer and Esophageal Cancer. Tepler has been a physician leader in the Ambulatory Center for Endoscopy, a premier state of the art Ambulatory Surgery Center in North Bergen, where he is a past Board President and co-director of the physician staff. Tepler has 25+ years of clinical experience in treating gastrointestinal and Liver diseases, and has performed thousands of endoscopic procedures. Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Center in New York, and then went on to fellowship training in Gastroenterology at SUNY-Downstate Long Island College Hospital, which he completed in 1993.ĭr. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the St. Harold Tepler graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1988.
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