Functionally Oriented/Regional Anatomy

Mohtashem Samsam is a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Director of research of the AdventHealth University (AHU), Orlando, FL, teaching graduate anatomy, pathophysiology, and research courses. He is the author of “Functionally Oriented Regional Anatomy” book.

Mohtashem Samsam studied Medicine in English language program of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University, in Szeged, Hungary (1991- 1996) and received his PhD in Neurosciences from the Dep. of Cell biology and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain (1997-1999), and defended his thesis in 2002. He did his post-doc studies in Developmental Neurobiology in the Neurology University Clinic of Wuerzburg University, Germany (1999- 2002).

Publishing several articles in headache and migraine during his MD and PhD studies he continued his post-doc studies examining the mechanism of neurodegeneration in animal models of inherited peripheral neuropathies and treatment of Charcot-Marie Tooth disorders using gene therapy and alteration of immune response. His research and scholarly activities are in migraine headaches and role of inflammation in neurological and psychiatric disorders. He is the author and coauthor of several books and the Editor in Chief of the Neuro-open journal.

Prior to joining AHU in 2020, Mohtashem Samsam was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida (2004-2020), teaching anatomy, clinical neuroanatomy, and clinical neuroscience to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Dr. Samsam developed several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at UCF, co-founded the neuroscience graduate program (2016) and was heavily involved in the curriculum development of the UCF College of Medicine for LCME accreditation in 2006-2007. He received multiple teaching and scholarship awards at the college and university levels. Curriculum alignment between college and university education is one of his areas of expertise and interests and he educated close to thirty thousand undergraduate students at UCF with that curriculum alignment philosophy. His “Functionally Oriented Regional Anatomy” is being adapted at both undergraduate and graduate levels.