Officers

President

Roham Moftakhar, M.D.




Roham Moftakhar, MD, is Chief of Neurosurgery at Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, where he also serves as an associate professor of clinical surgery for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia.

He received his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and completed his neurological surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison. He completed fellowships in neuroendovascular surgery and cerebrovascular/skull-base surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, and is board certified in neurological surgery.

Dr. Moftakhar's clinical interests include general neurosurgery (brain surgery), endovascular/vascular neurosurgery, carotid endarterectomy and stenting, cerebral angiography and coil embolization of aneurysms. Conditions he cares for include brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, strokes, intracerebral hemorrhages, moyamoya disease, brain tumors, pituitary tumors, acoustic neuromas, intracerebral hemorrhages, trigeminal neuralgias and hemifacial spasm.

Moftakhar's research interests include minimally invasive techniques for surgical treatment of intracranial hemorrhage; development of novel endovascular devices for treatments of cerebral aneurysms; and endoscopic techniques for surgical resection of brain tumors.


Vice President

Jan Vargas, MD



Representative to State Council

Shannon Webb, M.D.
USC Neurosurgery

Dr. Sharon Webb joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in August 2008 after completing a neurotrauma and critical care fellowship at the University of Tennessee/Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center in Memphis, TN. She then completed an endovascular fellowship at the University of Buffalo in 2011 and now is the co-director of cerebrovascular services at Palmetto Richland.