Jaffar M Khan, MD, PhD, FSCAI
Jaffar M Khan, MD, PhD, FSCAI
St Francis Hospital & Heart Center
Roslyn,
NY
USA
Biographical Sketch: Jaffar is an Interventional Cardiologist at St Francis Hospital and Heart Center, Roslyn, where he is the Director of Interventional Electrosurgery, Director of Cardiovascular Innovation, and Associate Director of Structural Heart Research. He continues research at the Laboratory of Cardiac Intervention, NHLBI, NIH. He led the invention of transcatheter electrosurgical techniques to cut heart tissue, and together with a team of dedicated physicians and creative thinkers, invented several novel transcatheter procedures and devices that have been translated into clinical.
He received his undergraduate degree at Cambridge as a Scholar, medical degree at Oxford with merits, and an award-winning PhD in cardiovascular sciences at King’s College London. He completed training in Oxford, London, and Washington DC. He has written over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has given over 50 invited lectures, including 4 late breaking clinical trial presentations. He is a regular live case operator.
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