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 CollegeClass of 1968
Aligarh Muslim UniversityBachelors, 1963

Certifications & Licensure

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
Dean’s Citation for Significant Contributions to the Advancement of Education Jefferson Medical College, 2004
Kun Po Soo Award, for Distinguished Contributions to Cross-cultural Psychiatry American Psychiatric Association, 2004
Robert Liebert Award, for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, 2003
Harry and Page Laughlin Award, for Excellence in Psychoanalytic Teaching American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians, 2003
Scientific Award Indo-American Psychiatric Association, 2002
Edith Sabshin Award, for Outstanding Tof Psychoanalysis to Known Psychoanalysts American Psychoanalytic Association, 2000
Sigmund Freud Award, for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians, 2000
Robert Waelder Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of the Year, from Psychiatric Residents Jefferson Medical College, 1999
Clinician of the Year Award Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), 1998
Lecturer on Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 1995
Journal Essay Award Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1995
International Who’s Who in Medicine 1995
Listed in the Dictionary of International Biography 1995
Who’s Who in the East 1994
Abe Freedman Resident’s Appreciation Award, from Psychiatric Residents Jefferson Medical College, 1994
The Best Doctors in America Woodward/White, Inc., 1993
Honorable Mention in Mahler Literature Prize Competition 1992
Visiting Professorship University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1992
Resident's Appreciation Award, from Psychiatric Residents Jefferson Medical College, 1990, 1992
Listed in Directory of Asian Psychiatrists American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 1986
Listed in Compendium of Certified Medical Specialists National Board of Medical Specialists, Washington, DC, 1986
Distinguished Teacher of the Year, from Psychiatric Residents Jefferson Medical College, 1985
Listed in Membership Directory American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 1983
The Departmental Thesis Committee "Accepted with Distinction" University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1979
The Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award Psychiatric Residents’ Association, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1979
Adolph Meyer Award for the Outstanding Performance as a Psychiatric Resident (1975-1976) University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1976
Awarded a Merit Scholarship 1966-1967
Special Prize in Anatomy Dissection 1965
Won First Prize of Stage Acting 1965-1968
Fellow American College of Psychoanalysts
Distinguished Life Fellow American Psychiatric Association
Fellow American Psychoanalytic Association
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Soft diamonds: poetic sentiment, poetic speech, and poetic specimen in the clinical hour.
Salman Akhtar
American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2024-03-01
3 citations
Repression: A Critical Assessment and Update of Freud’s 1915 Paper
Salman Akhtar
American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2020-09-01
Dancing With Words.
Salman Akhtar
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 2020-03-17

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
Computer Assisted Personalized Sedation: Friend or Foe? Opinion Piece
Urman RD, Maurer WG, Anesth Analg, 5/1/2014
Decision Time
Khorana AA, Ann Int Med, 3/18/2014
Risk of hospitalised infection in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving biologics following a previous infection while on treatment with anti-TNF therapy
Yun Huifeng, Xie Fenglong, Delzell Elizabeth, Chen Lang, Levitan Emily B, Lewis James D, Saag Kenneth G, Beukelman Timothy, Winthrop Kevin, Baddley John W, Curtis Jeff..., Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 3/1/2014
Stress Sonography of the Ulnar Collateral Ligament of the Elbow in Professional Baseball Pitchers: A 10 year study
Ciccotti MG, Atanda A Jr, Nazarian LN, Dodson CC, Holmes L, Cohen SB, Am J Sports Med, 1/1/2014
Lack of data to support thromboprophylaxis in hospitalized cancer patients
Carrier M, Khorana AA, LeGal G, Moretto P and Zwicker JL, Am J Med, 1/1/2014
Strabismus in childhood eyelid ptosis
Griepentrog GJ, Diehl NN, Mohney BG, AJO, 1/1/2014
Surgical Correction of Childhood Intermittent Exotropia and the Risk of Developing Mental Illness
Kilgore KP, Barraza RA, McKenzie J, Hodge D, Mohney BG, AJO, 1/1/2014
Comparison of Wide-Field Fluorescein Angiography and Nine-Field Montage Angiography in Uveitis
Nicholson BP, Nigam D, Miller D, Agrón E, Dalal M, Jacobs-El N, da Rocha Lima B, Cunningham D, Nussenblatt R, Sen HN, Am J Opthalmol, 1/1/2014
Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA) for the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Suite
Tetzlaff JE, Vargo JJ, Maurer WG, Anesthesia Clinics of North America, 1/1/2014
Timing of congenital dacryostenosis resolution and the development of anisometropia
Pyi Son MK, Hodge DO, Mohney BG, BJO, 1/1/2014
Ocular side effects following intravitreal injection therapy for retinoblastoma: a systemic review
Smith SJ, Smith BD, Mohney BG, BJO, 1/1/2014
Mental pain of minorities
Ahktar, S, British Journal of Psychotherapy, 1/1/2014
Non-viral opportunistic infections in new users of tumour necrosis factor inhibitor therapy: results of the SAfety Assessment of Biologic ThERapy (SABER) Study
Baddley John W, Winthrop Kevin L, Chen Lang, Liu Liyan, Grijalva Carlos G, Delzell Elizabeth, Beukelman Timothy, Patkar Nivedita M, Xie Fenglong, Saag Kenneth G, Herri..., Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 7/1/2013
Trends in the Use of Biologic Therapies among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Enrolled in the US Medicare Program
Zhang Jie, Xie Fenglong, Delzell Elizabeth, Chen Lang, Kilgore Meredith L, Yun Huifeng, Saag Kenneth G, Lewis James D, Curtis Jeffrey R, Arthritis Care & Research, 6/1/2013
CATCH: a randomised clinical trial comparing long-term tinzaparin versus warfarin for treatment of acute venous thromboembolism in cancer patients
Lee AYY, Bauersachs R, Janas MS, Jarner MF, Kamphuisen PW, Meyer G and Khorana AA, BMC Cancer, 6/1/2013
Structure-constrained sparse canonical correlation analysis with an application to microbiome data analysis
Chen Jun, Bushman Frederic D, Lewis James D, Wu Gary D, Li Hongzhe, Biostatistics (Oxford, England), 4/1/2013
Diet, the human gut microbiota, and IBD
Wu Gary D, Bushmanc Frederic D, Lewis James D, Anaerobe, 3/1/2013
Incidence and Predictors of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Among Ambulatory High-Risk Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy in the United States
Khorana AA, Dalal M, Lin J and Connolly GC, Cancer, 2/1/2013
Evaluation of Information Available on the Internet Regarding Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstrcution
Duncan I, Kane PW, Lawson KA, Cohen SB, Ciccotti MG, Dodson CC, Arthroscopy, 1/1/2013
Initiation of Anti-TNF Therapy and the Risk of Optic Neuritis; From the Safety Assessment of Biologic ThERapy (SABER) Study
Winthrop KL, Chen L, Fraunfelder FW, Ku JH, Varley CD, Suhler E, Hills WL, Gattey D, Baddley JW, Liu L, Grijalva CG, Delzell E, Beukelman T, Patkar NM, Xie F, Herrinto..., American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1/1/2013
Tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitor therapy and cancer risk in chronic immune-mediated diseases
Haynes Kevin, Beukelman Timothy, Curtis Jeffrey R, Newcomb Craig, Herrinton Lisa J, Graham David J, Solomon Daniel H, Griffin Marie R, Chen Lang, Liu Liyan, Saag Kenne..., Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1/1/2013
Cultural Diversity and Views on Alzheimer’s Disease in Older African Americans
Rovner BW, Casten RJ, Fields Harris L, Alzheimer’s Disease & Associated Disorders, 1/1/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

Revenge: Origins, Manifestations, and Management.
Editors: Ahktar, S., and Parens, H..Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2014
Betrayal: Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Karnac, London, United Kingdom2013
The First Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Chapter: Foreword.
Editors: R. Sterba.IPA/Karnac Books, London, United Kingdom2013
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
Chapter: Command and legacy: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Page 87 - 116Ahktar, S. and Blue, S.Editors: S. Akhtar.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2012
Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts.
Chapter: The spider who became a poem.
Page 110 - 116Editors: Ahktar, S..Karnac, London, United Kingdom2012
Majaz aur Uski Shayeri.
Editors: Ahktar, S..Star Publications, New Delhi, India2012
Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts.
Editors: Ahktar, S..Karnac, London, United Kingdom2012
The Mother and Her Child: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2012
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
Editors: S. Akhtar.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2012
The Electrified Mind: Personality Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2011
Unusual Interventions: Alterations of Frame, Method, and Relationship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Karnac, London, United Kingdom2011
On Freud’s ‘Negation’.
Editors: O’neil, M.K. and Ahktar, S..International Psychoanalytic Association, London, United Kingdom2011
The Wound of Mortality: Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2010
Good Feelings: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Positive Emotions and Attitudes.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Karnac Books, London, United Kingdom2009
On Freud’s ‘The Future of an Illusion’.
Editors: O’neil, M.K., and Ahktar, S..International Psychoanalytic Association, London, United Kingdom2009
Lying, Cheating, and Carrying On: Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit.
Editors: Ahktar, S., Parens, H..Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2009
Freud and the Far East: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea.
Editors: Ahktar, S..Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2009
The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Resilience.
Editors: H. Parens, H. Blum, and Ahktar, S..Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2008
The Crescent and The Couch: Cross-Currents between Islam and Psychoanalysis.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Other Press, New York, NY2008
Listening to Others: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Empathy and Attunement.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2007
Severe Personality Disorders: A Practical Handbook
Chapter: Disruptions in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: meanings and management.
Page 93 - 107Editors: B. Van Luwyn, S. Akhtar, and J. Livesley.Cambridge University Press, London, United Kingdom2007
The Geography of Meanings: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation.
Editors: Hooke, M.T.S, and Ahktar, S..International Psychoanalytic Association, London, United Kingdom2007
Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and Violations.
Editors: Ahktar, S.Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD2006
Conn’s Current Therapy 2006.
Chapter: Ectopic Pregnancy.
Lipscomb GHEditors: Rakel RE, Bope, ET.WB Saunders2006
Cultural Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and its Sublimations.
Editors: Ahktar, S., Volkan, V.D..International Universities Press, Madison, CT2005
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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
Strabismus in Childhood Eyelid Ptosis.
Griepentrog GJ, Mohney BG, American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Spring Meeting, Park City, UT, 6/1/2014
The Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders. Panel
Ahktar, S, co-panelists John Gunderson, Glenn Gabbard, David Black and Lois Choi-Kain, Annual Meetings of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, 5/7/2014
Differential microRNA expression levels in Gleason 6 prostate biopsies: A potential test for guidance in determining which patients should undergo treatment versus act...
Lebeis, C., Bailey, K., Waldorf, B., Kowalik, C., Sullivan, T., Canes, D., Moinzadeh, A., Libertino, J., Rieger-Christ, K, AUA National Meeting, Orlando, FL, 5/1/2014
Novel Technique Prevents Lymphoceles Following Transperitoneal Robotic Assisted Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection: Peritoneal Flap Interposition. Poster Presentation
Lebeis, C., Canes, D., Gee, J., Sorcini, A., Moinzadeh, A, AUA National Meeting, Orlando, FL, 5/1/2014
LINX Procedure: A Novel Intervention For Refractory Asthma Complicated By GERD.
Sriratanaviriyakul N, Kivler C, Kenyon NJ, Yoneda K, Horgan S, Louie S, ATS, San Diego, CA, 5/1/2014
DRESS Syndrome Associated With Azithromycin, Presenting Like Septic Shock.
Sriratanaviriyakul N, Nguyen L, Henderson T, Albertson T, ATS, San Diego, CA, 5/1/2014
Successfully managed endophthalmitis following strabismus surgery in three patients.
Alniemi ST, Bakri SJ, Cherfan C, Shultz R, Pulido JS, Mohney BG, ARVO, Seattle, WA, 5/1/2014
Accuracy of Prediction of Steep Axis and Cylinder Power Using IOL Master versus Pentacam in Patients Undergoing Toric IOL Implantation.
Brown SE, Miller DD, Ostrovsky A, Wallenstein S, Speaker MG, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting Abstracts, 5/1/2014
Novel Technique Prevents Lymphoceles Following Transperitoneal Robotic Assisted Pelvis Lymph Node Dissection: Peritoneal Flap Interposition
Lebeis, C, AUA National Meeting, 5/1/2014
Prevalence of dissociated vertical deviation in childhood strabismus: a population-based study.
Cherfan CG, Diehl NN, Mohney BG, Annual AAPOS, Palm Springs, CA, 4/3/2014
The effect of part-time patching on near stereoacuity, control, and angle in childhood intermittent exotropia.
Mohney BG, Cotter SA, Chandler KL, Holmes JM, et al, Annual AAPOS, Palm Springs, CA, 4/3/2014
Surgical Correction of Childhood Intermittent Exotropia and the Risk of Developing Mental Illness.
Pyi Son MK, Barraza R, McKenzie J, Hodge D, Mohney BG, Annual AAPOS, Palm Springs, CA, 4/3/2014
Prevalent forms of adult-onset strabismus.
Mohney BG, Martinez-Thompson J, Diehl NN, Holmes, Annual All India Ophthalmology Conference, Agra, India, 2/6/2014
Therapy with Bevacizumab Is Associated with Reduced Expression of KLF2 in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells: A Potential Prothrombotic Mechanism. Poster Presentation
Suman Kundu, Micheal Mawhorter, Sergei M. Merkoulov, Keith R. McCrae and Alok A. Khorana, ASH, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2014
Preoperative Chemoradiation For Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Improves Margin Negativity And Nodal Involvement At Resection.
C. A. Berriochoa, A. Kumar, A. A. Khorana, R. M. Walsh, M. Abdel-Wahab, ASTRO, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2014
Venous thromboembolism in patients with glioblastoma multiforme. Poster Presentaton
Edwin N, Khorana AA, Barnett G, Ahluwalia M, ASCO, 1/1/2014
Predictors of clinically significant bleeding in colorectal cancer: Results from a global prospective cohort study. Poster Presentation
Sohal D, Kuderer NM, Lyman GH, Shepherd F, Agnelli G, Meyer G and Khorana AA, ASCO GI Symposium, 1/1/2014
Predictors of early mortality in colorectal cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: Results from a global prospective cohort study. Poster Presentation
Sohal D, Kuderer NM, Lyman GH, Shepherd F, Agnelli G, Meyer G and Khorana AA, ASCO GI Symposium, 1/1/2014
IXT-2: A randomized trial comparing part-time patching with observation for children with intermittent exotropia.
Mohney BG, Cotter SA, Chandler KL, Holmes JM, et al, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 11/18/2013
From Near Death To A New Life.
Maurer WG, ASA Newsletter, 10/1/2013
Amblyopia in Childhood Ptosis.
Griepentrog GJ, Diehl NN, Mohney BG, American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 9/1/2013
Childhood esotropia. Invited Panel Expert
Mohney BG, Annual European Strabismological Association, Marseilles, France, 9/1/2013
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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
Gratitude. Keynote Speaker
Hong Kong - 8/18/2014
Is the Future Here? Novel Technologies in Decision-Making. Invited Discussant
Chicago, IL - 6/2/2014
Four Different Ways of Listening to Patients
New York, NY - 5/4/2014
Can we do better with our currently available therapies?
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 4/1/2014
UCL Update: From Injury to Surgery.
Bryn Mawr, PA - 3/1/2014
Cross Cultural Communications: Clinical and Social Dimensions.
Cincinnati, OH - 10/25/2013
Dilemma in Supervision: Therapeutic Goals, Psychoanalytic Goals, or Psychoanalyst's Goals
Cincinnati, OH - 10/25/2013
Airway Management for ERCP.
San Francisco, CA - 10/15/2013
Improving Safety and Efficiency in Out-of-OR Anesthesia.
San Francisco, CA - 10/13/2013
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now Conference, Keynote Speaker
London, UK - 10/5/2013
Computer Assisted Personalized Sedation
Cleveland, OH - 10/1/2013
Preschool Development
8/31/2013
Infant Development
8/1/2013
Do IBD Medications Cause Cancer?
Orlando, FL - 5/1/2013
How and When to De-Escalate IBD Therapy.
Orlando, FL - 5/1/2013
Pediatric Autism Psychopharmacology
4/25/2013
Cancer-associated thrombosis: prevention and management.
Pittsburgh, PA - 4/19/2013
Pediatric Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
1/24/2013
Cancer prevention and treatment in patients with IBD.
Hollywood, FL - 12/1/2012
Identification and Prevention of Detection Bias in Studies of the Association between Diabetes Therapies and Cancer.
Barcelona, Spain - 8/1/2012
The Homes of Childhood: Spaces of Love, Dread, and Play
Freud House and Museum, London, UK - 7/14/2012
Monetary Madness: the Role of Money in Psychopathology and its Treatment
Philadelphia, PA - 5/5/2012
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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