Yasin Khan, MD, PhD

Dr. Yasin Khan was born and raised in Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto, where he earned his Honours Bachelor of Science and subsequently received his Doctor of Medicine from Saba University. He then joined Johns Hopkins University as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Nanomedicine, where he stayed on as a Faculty Research Associate before resuming his clinical training. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his clinical fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Louisiana State University. While at LSU, Dr. Khan received the William J. Gandolini Memorial Fellowship Award for research in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). After his fellowship in New Orleans, Dr. Khan returned to the University of Toronto and joined the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, where he gained additional training and experience in advanced and subspeciality critical care medicine. He is currently completing his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Khan joined the Faculty of Tulane University as an Assistant Professor and Physician Scientist in February 2022. His clinical interests include the management of acute hypoxic respiratory failure (AHRF) and ARDS, mechanical ventilation, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. He practices critical care and pulmonary medicine at University Medical Center New Orleans. Dr. Khan’s methodologic areas of interest include observational research and clinical epidemiology. His research is focussed on the management of AHRF and understanding how this broader syndrome is related to ARDS. He is investigating how mechanical strategies for ARDS can be extrapolated to patients with AHRF and the clinical outcomes associated with this approach. For this research, Dr. Khan has earned a position as a scholar in the Tulane University Dean’s Faculty Physician Scientist Pipeline Program.