{"id":22,"date":"2022-05-23T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/hhp\/?post_type=person&#038;p=22"},"modified":"2025-08-31T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:32:33","slug":"sarah-imam-m-d","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/hhp\/faculty-staff\/sarah-imam-m-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Imam, M.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-associate-professor-of-health-and-human-performance\">Associate Professor of Health and Human Performance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bio<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. My teaching responsibilities focus on health-based subjects; advanced physiology subjects which include environmental physiology and exercise physiology, medical terminology and nutrition. My research interests include the neuroscience of musculoskeletal activity and disease, neurotransmitter activity, neurodegenerative disease and aging and its impact on the nervous and musculoskeletal system. &nbsp;I have served in the HHS faculty since Fall 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>M.D.<\/strong> (Spartan Health Sciences University in Santa Teresa, New Mexico &#8211; 1998)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MBBS I<\/strong> (Kings College in London &#8211; 1996)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-research-interests\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The neuroscience of musculoskeletal activity and disease, neurotransmitter activity, neurodegenerative disease and aging and its impact on the nervous and musculoskeletal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-notable-publications\">Notable Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bezjian, J., Dean, B., Ponomarov, S., <strong>Imam, S.<\/strong>, Riggle, R., Weeks, M., &amp; Selden, S. (Accepted). Higher education response to institutional upheaval: Outcomes of industry collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic. <em>Industry and Higher Education<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nkrumah, Y., Saef, S. H., Yuen, E., <strong>Imam, S.<\/strong>, Steyer, T. E., Nguyen, S. A., &amp; Salgado, C. D. (2021). Treatment of COVID-19 patients with remdesivir: A systematic review and meta-analysis. <em>Annals of Epidemiology &amp; Public Health<\/em>, <em>4<\/em>, 1052-1058.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Imam, S.<\/strong>, Lao, W., Reddy, P., Nguyen, S., Schlosser, R. (2020). Is SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) post-viral olfactory dysfunction (PVOD) different from other PVOD? <em>World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology &#8211; Head and Neck Surgery<\/em>, <em>6<\/em>, 26-32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1fFtbJMqbJTL_fVd1YDo_jRfZMv65mDDD\/view?usp=sharing\">Dr. Sarah Imam&#8217;s CV<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Health and Human Performance Bio I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. My teaching responsibilities focus on health-based subjects; advanced physiology subjects which include environmental physiology and exercise physiology, medical terminology and nutrition. 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