Sebiha Abdullahi, M.D.

Sebiha Abdullahi, MD, is a third year Child Neurology Resident at UCLA. She studied Biochemistry at Wellesley College. Following her undergraduate studies, she spent two years as a research fellow at the Yale Translational Developmental Neuroscience Research where she developed her passion for working with children with neurodevelopmental disorders and conducting research in the field. She has also collaborated with various autism centers in her home town, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to provide trainings to teachers and parents of children with autism. She attended the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and has been working with Dr. Rujuta Wilson, in the Wilson Motor Lab, to study motor differences in children at high risk for autism. Her research interest includes studying early signs of autism, developing diagnostic tools that are accessible and applicable in resource limited areas.