Alaptagin Khan, MBBS, FRSPH
About Alaptagin
After graduating from medical school, Alaptagin Khan, MBBS, FRSPH, took the opportunity to work with the Red Cross and UNICEF in conflict zones where he developed an interest in PTSD and the neurobiology of traumatic stress.
These interests brought him to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2010 where he studied the effects of environmental toxins on brain development as a joint post-doctoral fellow at the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, with Dr. Elizabeth Sajdel-Sulkowska and Dr. Ann Marie Zavacki.
Once he gained experience in basic neuroscience, in 2012, Dr. Khan joined McLean Hospital’s Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program, led by Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD, to focus on the neurobiology of trauma and adversity. He is currently is a research associate at McLean and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and holds visiting faculty appointments at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, and Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan.
