JAFFAR KHAN, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
jkhan@emory.edu
Phone: 404.616.4013
Fax: 404.659.0849

Education
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana B.S., 1989
Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, M.D. 1993

Titles and Affiliation

October 2001- Present: Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship

September 99 - present: Assistant Professor of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine Director, EMG Laboratory, Grady Health System

March 98 - August 99: Instructor, Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine Director, EMG Laboratory, Grady Health System

Honors and Awards

June 2003 Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine

June 1999 Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine

1991-92 AMA-Medical Student Section National Delegate

1990-91 AMA-Medical Student Section Chapter President

Arthur R. Choppin Memorial Honors for Outstanding Academic Achievement

Deans List - eight semesters

Research Focus

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Clinical Trial of Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF-1) in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Sponsored by The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2004.  IND#63,356. 

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Emory Alcohol and Lung Biology Center, NIH P50 AA013757-01, 2003.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Clinical Trial of Celebrex in Subjects with ALS, 2002.

Principal Investigator, Emory University, Incidence and prognosis of myopathy in septic patients study, HIC #163-2001, 2001.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Interventional Management of Stroke (IMS) Study, protocol #1R1NS9160-01, 2001.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, A Dose Response Study of Duloxetine versus Placebo in Patients with Painful Diabetic Neuropathy, 2001.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Levetriacetam Study for Partial Epilepsy (Study N158), 2000.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Warfarin Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease (WASID)/Stroke Outcome and Neuroimaging of Intracranial Stenosis (SONIA) Studies, 1999.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, The Effects of 2000 mg Citicoline on Clinical Outcome and the Evolution of Lesion Volume in Human Stroke, 1998.

Co-Investigator, Emory University, Clomethiazole Acute Stroke Study in Ischemic Stroke (CLASS-I), Clomethiazole Acute Stroke Study? t-PA (CLASS-T), and Clomethiazole Acute Stroke Study ? Hemorrhage (CLASS-H), sponsored by Astra Pharmaceuticals, 1998.

Co-Investigator of the Randomized Trial of Org 10172 (low molecular weight heparinoid) in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke (TOAST) Supervisor, Harold P. Adams, M.D., 1995.