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Maral Bakir, NP, PhD

  • Neurology
Westwood Neurology |
300 Medical Plaza, Suite B200 Los Angeles, CA 90095

Languages

English

Education

Degrees

PhD, UCLA School of Nursing, 2024
NP, UCLA School of Nursing, 2020

Recognitions

  • UCLA Regents Grant, 2024
  • UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship, 2020
  • Delores Jones Scholarship by Kaiser Permanente for ACNP, 2020
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Locations

UCLA Health 300 Medical Plaza
West Los Angeles

Westwood Neurology

Neurology| Movement Disorders Neurology| Epilepsy Neurology +6 more specialties

Hospital Affiliations

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Medical Services

Research

Interests

  • Seizures
  • Epilepsy Surgery 
  • Seizure Management

Publications

  1. Bakir, M. (2024). Relationship of Prehospital Clinical Biomarkers and New York Heart Association Classification in Management of Heart Failure Patients Infected with COVID-19 and long COVID (Doctoral dissertation, UCLA).
  2. Romero, E., Tabak, E., Fishbein, G., Litovsky, S., Tallaj, J., Liem, D., Bakir, M. ... & Cadeiras, M. (2023). Unsupervised mRNA‐seq classification of heart transplant endomyocardial biopsies. Clinical transplantation37(9), e15011.
  3. Schaenman, J. M., Rossetti, M., Sidwell, T., Groysberg, V., Sunga, G., Liang, E., ... & Deng, M. (2019). Association of pro-inflammatory cytokines and monocyte subtypes in older and younger patients on clinical outcomes after mechanical circulatory support device implantation. Human immunology80(2), 126-134.
  4. Bakir, M., Jackson, N. J., Han, S. X., Bui, A., Chang, E., Liem, D. A., ... & Cadeiras, M. (2018). Clinical phenomapping and outcomes after heart transplantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation37(8), 956-966.
  5. Schaenman, J. M., Rossetti, M., Korin, Y., Sidwell, T., Groysberg, V., Liang, E., ... & Deng, M. (2018). T cell dysfunction and patient age are associated with poor outcomes after mechanical circulatory support device implantation. Human immunology79(4), 203-212.
  6. Bondar, G., Togashi, R., Cadeiras, M., Schaenman, J., Cheng, R. K., Masukawa, L., ... & Deng, M. C. (2017). Association between preoperative peripheral blood mononuclear cell gene expression profiles, early postoperative organ function recovery potential and long-term survival in advanced heart failure patients undergoing mechanical circulatory support. PloS one12(12), e0189420.
  7. Bondar, G., Cadeiras, M., Wisniewski, N., Maque, J., Chittoor, J., Chang, E., Bakir, M., ... & Deng, M. (2014). Comparison of whole blood and peripheral blood mononuclear cell gene expression for evaluation of the perioperative inflammatory response in patients with advanced heart failure. PloS one9(12), e115097.

 

Epilepsy Abstracts:

  1. (2025). Centromedian Thalamic DBS Achieves Substantial Seizure Control in an Ultra-Refractory Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Unresponsive to VNS and Polytherapy
  2. (2024). A 60‐year follow‐up of a case of symptomatic west syndrome transitioned to temporal lobe epilepsy in adulthood.

 

Insurance

  • Aetna
  • Anthem Blue Cross
  • Blue Shield of California
  • Centivo
  • Cigna
  • First Health
  • Health Net of California
  • Interplan (part of HealthSmart)
  • Medicare Advantage
  • MultiPlan
  • UFCM Health System
  • Prime Health Services
  • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
  • TRICARE
  • UnitedHealthcare

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Recognitions

  • UCLA Regents Grant, 2024
  • UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship, 2020
  • Delores Jones Scholarship by Kaiser Permanente for ACNP, 2020
  • UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship, 2019
  • Research and Evidence Based Practice Conference Poster Award, UCLA, 2017
  • Nursing, Health Sciences and Allied Health Excellence in Research Award, ISHLT, 2017
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Selection UCLA, 2015
  • Research Scholar Award, UCLA, 2015
  • Research Fellow Award, UCLA, 2014