Farooqi, Ahmad
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Ahmad Farooqi comes to Central Michigan University College of Medicine with a background in Biostatistics, Statistics, Data Analysis, and Mathematics. Under the umbrella of the Clinical Research Institute (CRI), Dr. Farooqi is committed to providing the necessary statistical support to faculty, fellows, and residents with writing SAS/R/IBMSPSS codes, doing power analysis & estimating sample size, checking data accuracy & consistency, doing data validation & verification, applying statistical theories & methods, writing reports, and articles for publications. Besides doing research work. Dr. Farooqi is also teaching statistics to residents, fellows, and faculty doctors every Wednesday Conference at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. His own research is focused on non-parametric, robust, and exact statistical methods. Dr. Farooqi is SAS certificated and proficient in IBMSPSS, STATA, GraphPad Prism, R, LATEX, AMOS, SMART BOARD, MINITAB, MPLUS, PASS, NCSS, and FORTRAN.
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Publications & Presentations
1. Camila OZ, Lalitha Sivaswamy, Giovanni Castellucci, Birce Taskin, Farooqi A., Nirupama Kannikeswaran (2023). Yield of Neuro diagnostic Testing in Children Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department With Altered Mental Status Pediatric Neurology.
Bennett N, Mansour M, Farooqi A, DeLaroche AM (2023). Resource Utilization for Pediatric Patients Discharged After Interhospital Transfer. Pediatric emergency care.
VanDeWall A, Harris-Kober S, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2023). Peri-Intubation Arrest in High Risk vs. Standard Risk Pediatric Trauma Patients Undergoing Endotracheal Intubation. The American journal of emergency medicine.
Vega C, Kannikeswaran N, Farooqi A, Arora R (2022). Toys and Toy Accessories Strike Back: Pediatric Injuries From Plush Toys, Toy Figurines, and Doll and Toy Accessories. Pediatric emergency care.
Aishwarya Navalpakam, Narin Thanaputkaiporn, Crystal Ajja, Farooqi A (2022). Milind Pansare, Divya Seth, Jenny Huang, Pavadee Poowuttikul, (2022). Immune Profiles in In-ner-city Asthmatic Children Receiving Frequent Systemic Steroids The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology.
Kim, Ji-Yeon, Sarnaik, Ajit & Farooqi A., Cashen, Katherine (2022). Contemporary feeding practices in postoperative patients with congenital heart disease Cardiology in the Young.
Bennett Natasha, Mansour Monica, Farooqi, A., Delaroche Amy M (2022). Resource Utilization for Pediatric Patients Discharged After Interhospital Transfer Pediatric Emergency Care.
Martin A, Rycus PT, Farooqi A, Dentel J, Cashen K (2022). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation outcomes in children with Williams syndrome: a review of the ELSO registry. Perfusion.
Yurkovich C, Nazer D, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2022). Does Postmortem Imaging Provide Additional Findings After Unexpected Deaths in Infants and Children? Pediatric emergency care.
Velumula PK, Elbakoush F, Tabb C 2nd, Farooqi A, Lulic-Botica M, Jani S, Natarajan G, Bajaj M (2022). Breast milk vs 24% sucrose for procedural pain relief in preterm neonates: a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial. Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association.
King J, Kannikeswaran N, Jain A, Farooqi A, Sethuraman U (2022). Emergency Department Utilization and Serious Bacterial Infection Rates in Children With Renal Transplants. Pediatric emergency care.
Ravichandran Y, Parker S, Farooqi A, DeLaroche A (2022). Bladder Stimulation for Clean Catch Urine Collection: Improved Parent and Provider Satisfaction. Pediatric emergency care.
Cheung R, Shukla M, Akers KG, Farooqi A, Sethuraman U (2022). Bicycle handlebar injuries - a systematic review of pediatric chest and abdominal injuries. The American journal of emergency medicine.
Mohammad D, Farooqi A, Mattoo TK (2022). Kidney Echogenicity and Vesicoureteral Reflux in Children with Febrile Urinary Tract Infection. The Journal of pediatrics.
Nirupama Kannikeswaran, Lavina desai, Farooqi A., Lalitha Sivaswamy (2021). Effectiveness of Standard Combination Therapy in Pediatric Migraine. Pediatric Neurology.
Amarilis Martin, Peter T Rycus, Farooqi A., Katherine Cashen (2021). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation outcomes in children with Williams syndrome: a review of the ELSO registry Perfusion..
Noman Arshed, Waqas Ahmad, Mubasher Munir & Farooqi A., (2021). Estimation of national stress index using socioeconomic antecedents – a case of the MIMIC model Psychology, Health & Medicine.
Nirupama Kannikeswaran, Lalitha Sivaswamy, Farooqi A., Usha Sethuraman (2021). Children With Complex Febrile Seizures: Is Hospital Admission Necessary? Clinical Pediatrics.
Sanil Y, Misra A, Safa R, Blake JM, Eddine AC, Balakrishnan P, Garcia RU, Taylor R, Dentel JN, Ang J, Cashen K, Heidemann SM, Bauerfield C, Sethuraman U, Farooqi A, Aggarwal S, Singh G (2021). Echocardiographic Indicators Associated with Adverse Clinical Course and Cardiac Sequelae in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with Coronavirus Disease 2019. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Lelak KA, Vohra V, Neuman MI, Farooqi A, Toce MS, Sethuraman U (2021). COVID-19 and Pediatric Ingestions. Pediatrics.
Sethuraman U, Kannikeswaran N, Farooqi A, Richards K, Chamberlain J (2021). Antipsychiatric Medication Errors in Children Boarded in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatric emergency care.
Sethuraman U, Kannikeswaran N, Singer A, Krouse CB, Cloutier D, Farooqi A, Donoghue L, Stankovic C (2021). Trauma Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Quarantine and "Stay at Home" Period. The American surgeon.
Haddad R, Parker S, Farooqi A, DeLaroche AM (2021). Diagnostic Evaluation Low Yield for Patients with a Lower-Risk Brief Resolved Unexplained Event. Global pediatric health.
Kim, Ji-Yeon; Sarnaik, Ajit; Farooqi A., Casen, Katherine (2020). Contemporary feeding practices in postoperative patients with congenital heart disease. Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Medicine.
Nehal Patel, Farooqi A., Callaghan Michael & Usha Sethuraman (2020). Tract Infection in Febrile Children with Sickle Cell Disease Who Present to the Emergency Room with Fever Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Chelsey Yurkovich, Dena Nazer, Farooqi A., Nirupama Kannikeswaran (2020). Does Postmortem Imaging Provide Additional Findings After Unexpected Deaths in Infants and Children? Pediatric Emergency Care.
Farooqi A., & Ronald Thomas (2020). Simulation and comparison of Theil Sen Regression, Theil Sen Siegel Regression, and Quantile Regression with outliers Proc. 15th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences Lahore, Pakistan..
Noble J, Zarling B, Geesey T, Smith E, Farooqi A, Yassir W, Sethuraman U (2020). Analgesia Use in Children with Acute Long Bone Fractures in the Pediatric Emergency Department. The Journal of emergency medicine.
Agarwal P, Sharma A, Farooqi A, Natarajan G (2020). Impact of different cord clamping strategies on short term neuromonitoring among preterm infants: a randomized, controlled trial. Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association.
Huang J, Kaur B, Farooqi A, Miah T, McGrath E, Seth D, Secord E, Poowuttikul P (2020). Elevated Glycated Hemoglobin Is Associated with Reduced Antibody Responses to Vaccinations in Children. Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology.
DeLaroche AM, Haddad R, Farooqi A, Sapién RE, Tieder JS (2020). Outcome Prediction of Higher-Risk Brief Resolved Unexplained Events. Hospital pediatrics.
Patel N, Farooqi A, Callaghan M, Sethuraman U (2020). Urinary Tract Infection in Febrile Children with Sickle Cell Disease Who Present to the Emergency Room with Fever. Journal of clinical medicine.
De Jong G, Kannikeswaran N, DeLaroche A, Farooqi A, Sivaswamy L (2020). Rapid Sequence MRI Protocol in the Evaluation of Pediatric Brain Attacks. Pediatric neurology.
Gutta R, Valentini KJ, Kaur G, Farooqi AA, Sivaswamy L (2019). Management of Childhood Migraine by Headache Specialist vs Non-Headache Specialists. Headache.
Farooqi A (2019). Application of latent growth modeling on mother-reported monitoring Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling.
Czolgosz T, Cashen K, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2019). Delayed Admissions to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Progression of Disease or Errors in Emergency Department Management. Pediatric emergency care.
Brown JJ, Gray JM, Roback MG, Sethuraman U, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2019). Procedural sedation in children with autism spectrum disorders in the emergency department. The American journal of emergency medicine.
Luetje M, Kannikeswaran N, Arora R, Wang B, Farooqi A, Sivaswamy L (2019). Utility of Neuroimaging in Children Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department With Ataxia. Pediatric emergency care.
Covi S, Ravindranath Y, Farooqi A, Savasan S, Chu R, Aggarwal S (2018). Changes in Bi-ventricular Function After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant as Assessed by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography. Pediatric cardiology.
Cohen A, Agarwal R, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2018). Is Shunt Evaluation Useful in Children With Intraventricular Shunts With Seizures? Pediatric neurology.
DeLaroche AM, Sivaswamy L, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2018). Pediatric Stroke and Its Mimics: Limitations of a Pediatric Stroke Clinical Pathway. Pediatric neurology.
Felt JR, Yurkovich C, Garshott DM, Kamat D, Farooqi A, Fribley AM, Callaghan MU, Hebert K (2017). The Utility of Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Genotype Detection in the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections in Children. Clinical pediatrics.
Mathias E, Tangpricha V, Sarnaik A, Farooqi A, Sethuraman U (2017). Association of vitamin D with cathelicidin and vitamin D binding protein in pediatric sepsis. Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology.
Kannikeswaran N, Lieh-Lai M, Malian M, Wang B, Farooqi A, Roback MG (2016). Optimal dosing of intravenous ketamine for procedural sedation in children in the ED-a randomized controlled trial. The American journal of emergency medicine.
DeLaroche AM, Sivaswamy L, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2016). Pediatric Stroke Clinical Pathway Improves the Time to Diagnosis in an Emergency Department. Pediatric neurology.
Farooqi A (2015). A study of Demographic and Personality factors related to the General state of health International Journal of applied research.
Sohail, Farooqi A., and Maryam (2014). A factor model of parenting style using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis Middle East Journal of Scientific research.
Farooqi A (2014). ARIMA Model Building and Forecasting on Imports and Exports of Pakistan Pakistan Journal of statistics and operations research.
Farooqi A (2012). Poisson and negative binomial regression models International Journal of applied research..
Bennett N, Mansour M, Farooqi A, DeLaroche AM (2023). Resource Utilization for Pediatric Patients Discharged After Interhospital Transfer. Pediatric emergency care.
VanDeWall A, Harris-Kober S, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2023). Peri-Intubation Arrest in High Risk vs. Standard Risk Pediatric Trauma Patients Undergoing Endotracheal Intubation. The American journal of emergency medicine.
Vega C, Kannikeswaran N, Farooqi A, Arora R (2022). Toys and Toy Accessories Strike Back: Pediatric Injuries From Plush Toys, Toy Figurines, and Doll and Toy Accessories. Pediatric emergency care.
Aishwarya Navalpakam, Narin Thanaputkaiporn, Crystal Ajja, Farooqi A (2022). Milind Pansare, Divya Seth, Jenny Huang, Pavadee Poowuttikul, (2022). Immune Profiles in In-ner-city Asthmatic Children Receiving Frequent Systemic Steroids The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology.
Kim, Ji-Yeon, Sarnaik, Ajit & Farooqi A., Cashen, Katherine (2022). Contemporary feeding practices in postoperative patients with congenital heart disease Cardiology in the Young.
Bennett Natasha, Mansour Monica, Farooqi, A., Delaroche Amy M (2022). Resource Utilization for Pediatric Patients Discharged After Interhospital Transfer Pediatric Emergency Care.
Martin A, Rycus PT, Farooqi A, Dentel J, Cashen K (2022). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation outcomes in children with Williams syndrome: a review of the ELSO registry. Perfusion.
Yurkovich C, Nazer D, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2022). Does Postmortem Imaging Provide Additional Findings After Unexpected Deaths in Infants and Children? Pediatric emergency care.
Velumula PK, Elbakoush F, Tabb C 2nd, Farooqi A, Lulic-Botica M, Jani S, Natarajan G, Bajaj M (2022). Breast milk vs 24% sucrose for procedural pain relief in preterm neonates: a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial. Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association.
King J, Kannikeswaran N, Jain A, Farooqi A, Sethuraman U (2022). Emergency Department Utilization and Serious Bacterial Infection Rates in Children With Renal Transplants. Pediatric emergency care.
Ravichandran Y, Parker S, Farooqi A, DeLaroche A (2022). Bladder Stimulation for Clean Catch Urine Collection: Improved Parent and Provider Satisfaction. Pediatric emergency care.
Cheung R, Shukla M, Akers KG, Farooqi A, Sethuraman U (2022). Bicycle handlebar injuries - a systematic review of pediatric chest and abdominal injuries. The American journal of emergency medicine.
Mohammad D, Farooqi A, Mattoo TK (2022). Kidney Echogenicity and Vesicoureteral Reflux in Children with Febrile Urinary Tract Infection. The Journal of pediatrics.
Nirupama Kannikeswaran, Lavina desai, Farooqi A., Lalitha Sivaswamy (2021). Effectiveness of Standard Combination Therapy in Pediatric Migraine. Pediatric Neurology.
Amarilis Martin, Peter T Rycus, Farooqi A., Katherine Cashen (2021). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation outcomes in children with Williams syndrome: a review of the ELSO registry Perfusion..
Noman Arshed, Waqas Ahmad, Mubasher Munir & Farooqi A., (2021). Estimation of national stress index using socioeconomic antecedents – a case of the MIMIC model Psychology, Health & Medicine.
Nirupama Kannikeswaran, Lalitha Sivaswamy, Farooqi A., Usha Sethuraman (2021). Children With Complex Febrile Seizures: Is Hospital Admission Necessary? Clinical Pediatrics.
Sanil Y, Misra A, Safa R, Blake JM, Eddine AC, Balakrishnan P, Garcia RU, Taylor R, Dentel JN, Ang J, Cashen K, Heidemann SM, Bauerfield C, Sethuraman U, Farooqi A, Aggarwal S, Singh G (2021). Echocardiographic Indicators Associated with Adverse Clinical Course and Cardiac Sequelae in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with Coronavirus Disease 2019. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Lelak KA, Vohra V, Neuman MI, Farooqi A, Toce MS, Sethuraman U (2021). COVID-19 and Pediatric Ingestions. Pediatrics.
Sethuraman U, Kannikeswaran N, Farooqi A, Richards K, Chamberlain J (2021). Antipsychiatric Medication Errors in Children Boarded in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatric emergency care.
Sethuraman U, Kannikeswaran N, Singer A, Krouse CB, Cloutier D, Farooqi A, Donoghue L, Stankovic C (2021). Trauma Visits to a Pediatric Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Quarantine and "Stay at Home" Period. The American surgeon.
Haddad R, Parker S, Farooqi A, DeLaroche AM (2021). Diagnostic Evaluation Low Yield for Patients with a Lower-Risk Brief Resolved Unexplained Event. Global pediatric health.
Kim, Ji-Yeon; Sarnaik, Ajit; Farooqi A., Casen, Katherine (2020). Contemporary feeding practices in postoperative patients with congenital heart disease. Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Medicine.
Nehal Patel, Farooqi A., Callaghan Michael & Usha Sethuraman (2020). Tract Infection in Febrile Children with Sickle Cell Disease Who Present to the Emergency Room with Fever Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Chelsey Yurkovich, Dena Nazer, Farooqi A., Nirupama Kannikeswaran (2020). Does Postmortem Imaging Provide Additional Findings After Unexpected Deaths in Infants and Children? Pediatric Emergency Care.
Farooqi A., & Ronald Thomas (2020). Simulation and comparison of Theil Sen Regression, Theil Sen Siegel Regression, and Quantile Regression with outliers Proc. 15th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences Lahore, Pakistan..
Noble J, Zarling B, Geesey T, Smith E, Farooqi A, Yassir W, Sethuraman U (2020). Analgesia Use in Children with Acute Long Bone Fractures in the Pediatric Emergency Department. The Journal of emergency medicine.
Agarwal P, Sharma A, Farooqi A, Natarajan G (2020). Impact of different cord clamping strategies on short term neuromonitoring among preterm infants: a randomized, controlled trial. Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association.
Huang J, Kaur B, Farooqi A, Miah T, McGrath E, Seth D, Secord E, Poowuttikul P (2020). Elevated Glycated Hemoglobin Is Associated with Reduced Antibody Responses to Vaccinations in Children. Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology.
DeLaroche AM, Haddad R, Farooqi A, Sapién RE, Tieder JS (2020). Outcome Prediction of Higher-Risk Brief Resolved Unexplained Events. Hospital pediatrics.
Patel N, Farooqi A, Callaghan M, Sethuraman U (2020). Urinary Tract Infection in Febrile Children with Sickle Cell Disease Who Present to the Emergency Room with Fever. Journal of clinical medicine.
De Jong G, Kannikeswaran N, DeLaroche A, Farooqi A, Sivaswamy L (2020). Rapid Sequence MRI Protocol in the Evaluation of Pediatric Brain Attacks. Pediatric neurology.
Gutta R, Valentini KJ, Kaur G, Farooqi AA, Sivaswamy L (2019). Management of Childhood Migraine by Headache Specialist vs Non-Headache Specialists. Headache.
Farooqi A (2019). Application of latent growth modeling on mother-reported monitoring Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling.
Czolgosz T, Cashen K, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2019). Delayed Admissions to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Progression of Disease or Errors in Emergency Department Management. Pediatric emergency care.
Brown JJ, Gray JM, Roback MG, Sethuraman U, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2019). Procedural sedation in children with autism spectrum disorders in the emergency department. The American journal of emergency medicine.
Luetje M, Kannikeswaran N, Arora R, Wang B, Farooqi A, Sivaswamy L (2019). Utility of Neuroimaging in Children Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department With Ataxia. Pediatric emergency care.
Covi S, Ravindranath Y, Farooqi A, Savasan S, Chu R, Aggarwal S (2018). Changes in Bi-ventricular Function After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant as Assessed by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography. Pediatric cardiology.
Cohen A, Agarwal R, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2018). Is Shunt Evaluation Useful in Children With Intraventricular Shunts With Seizures? Pediatric neurology.
DeLaroche AM, Sivaswamy L, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2018). Pediatric Stroke and Its Mimics: Limitations of a Pediatric Stroke Clinical Pathway. Pediatric neurology.
Felt JR, Yurkovich C, Garshott DM, Kamat D, Farooqi A, Fribley AM, Callaghan MU, Hebert K (2017). The Utility of Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Genotype Detection in the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections in Children. Clinical pediatrics.
Mathias E, Tangpricha V, Sarnaik A, Farooqi A, Sethuraman U (2017). Association of vitamin D with cathelicidin and vitamin D binding protein in pediatric sepsis. Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology.
Kannikeswaran N, Lieh-Lai M, Malian M, Wang B, Farooqi A, Roback MG (2016). Optimal dosing of intravenous ketamine for procedural sedation in children in the ED-a randomized controlled trial. The American journal of emergency medicine.
DeLaroche AM, Sivaswamy L, Farooqi A, Kannikeswaran N (2016). Pediatric Stroke Clinical Pathway Improves the Time to Diagnosis in an Emergency Department. Pediatric neurology.
Farooqi A (2015). A study of Demographic and Personality factors related to the General state of health International Journal of applied research.
Sohail, Farooqi A., and Maryam (2014). A factor model of parenting style using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis Middle East Journal of Scientific research.
Farooqi A (2014). ARIMA Model Building and Forecasting on Imports and Exports of Pakistan Pakistan Journal of statistics and operations research.
Farooqi A (2012). Poisson and negative binomial regression models International Journal of applied research..
Credentials, Certifications & Awards
The best article selected is entitled “Rapid Sequence MRI protocol in the Evaluation of pediatric brain attacks” in Pediatric Neurology 2019
A full Tuition scholarship provided by Wayne State University covered my studies toward the Ph.D. program.
Best paper selected and awarded among the 188 papers, entitled “Simulation and comparison of Theil Sen regression, Theil Sen Siegel regression, and Quantile regression with outliers in small samples” in 15th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-15).
Best article selected entitled “Rapid sequence MRI protocol in the evaluation of pediatric brain attacks” in Pediatric Neurology.
A full Tuition scholarship provided by Wayne State University covered my studies toward the Ph.D. program.
Best paper selected and awarded among the 188 papers, entitled “Simulation and comparison of Theil Sen regression, Theil Sen Siegel regression, and Quantile regression with outliers in small samples” in 15th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-15).
Best article selected entitled “Rapid sequence MRI protocol in the evaluation of pediatric brain attacks” in Pediatric Neurology.
Membership in Professional Organizations
Biostatistics Journal Club at Wayne State University
Ontario College of Teachers
The Pie Club of the Mathematics and Statistics program at the University of Windsor
American Statistical Association
Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences
Ontario College of Teachers
The Pie Club of the Mathematics and Statistics program at the University of Windsor
American Statistical Association
Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences