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Salman Akhtar, MD, Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA

SalmanAkhtarMD

Psychiatry Philadelphia, PA

Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College-Thos Jefferson Univ

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  • Office

    833 Chestnut St
    Ste 210
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    Phone+1 215-955-2547
    Fax+1 215-503-2856

Education & Training

  • JN Medical College
    JN Medical CollegeClass of 1968
  • Aligarh Muslim University
    Aligarh Muslim UniversityBachelors, 1963

Certifications & Licensure

  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 1979 - 2024
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Sigourney Award For Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis American Psychiatric Association and the Mary Sigourney Foundation, 2013
  • Nancy Roeske Award for Excellence in Teaching Medical Students American Psychiatric Association, 2011
  • Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents, , Annual Psychiatric Association Meetings 2005
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Minimal benefit of earlier-than-recommended repeat colonoscopy among US Medicare enrollees following a negative colonoscopy  
    Yang Y-X, French B, Localio A R, Brensinger C M, Lewis J D, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 8/1/2014
  • Phase II Study of gemcitabine, oxaliplatin in combination with panitumumab in KRAS wild-type unresectable or metastatic biliary tract and gall bladder cancer  
    Hezel AF, Noel MS, Allen JA, Abrams TA, Yurgelun M, Faris JE, Goyal L, Clark MD2, Lawrence S. Blaszkowsky, Janet E. Murphy, Hui Zheng, Khorana AA, Connolly GC, Ollivie..., Br J Ca, 6/24/2014
  • Anesthesia for Endoscopic Procedures – The New Frontier  
    Tetzlaff JE, Abdelmalak B, Maurer WG, Advances in Anesthesia, 5/1/2014
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Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • A Rare but Reversible Causes of Hematemesis: "Downhill Esophageal Varices".
    Lam Phuong Nguyen, DO; Narin Sriratanaviriyakul, MD; Christian Sandrock, MD, CHEST, Austin, TX, 10/1/2014
  • Temporary Endobronchial Stent as a Bridge to Corrective Surgery for Severe Kyphoscoliosis-Associated Central Airway Total Occlusion.
    Sriratanaviriyakul, N, CHEST, Austin, TX, 10/1/2014
  • Incidence of Injury to the Infrapatellar Branch of the Saphenous Nerve after ACL Reconstruction: A Prospective Study.
    Dodson CC, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Specialty Day, Seattle, WA, 7/1/2014
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Lectures

  • Diagnosis and management of malignancies (other than CRC) in IBD. 
    Orlando, FL - 12/1/2014
  • How to obtain funding for an investigator initiated IBD clinical research study. 
    Orlando, FL - 12/1/2014
  • Generosity. Keynote Speaker 
    Hong Kong - 8/18/2014
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Other

  • "Radical Hysterectomy". Videotape 
    Lipscomb GH, Miller B, Copyright: Assoc Prof of Obstetrics &Gynecology/ Ethicon Surgical Teaching Program
    1/1/1999