Yasmin Khakoo Explained

Yasmin Khakoo
Birth Date:1964
Birth Place:New York City, New York State, U.S.
Field:Neurooncology

Yasmin Khakoo (born 1964) is an Indian-American pediatric neuro-oncologist[1] and editor-in-chief of the medical journal Pediatric Neurology since 2022.[2] In 2023, she won the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine award of the Child Neurology Society for her mentorship and work with minorities and underserved communities.[3]

Early life and education

Khakoo was born in New York City, and attended high school in the Bronx.[4] She did her undergraduate studies at Barnard College, went to Columbia University for medical school, and then to the University of California, San Francisco for residency in pediatrics and child neurology.[5]

Career

Khakoo completed a fellowship in neurooncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She remained as a member and became child neurology director there in 2015.

Simultaneously she holds an academic position at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she became a full professor in 2020.[6]

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, where she was selected for the "Women Leading in Neurology" program in 2019 and has served on the "Advancing Women in Academics" subcommittee since 2021.[7] She served many years on the scientific selection and program planning committee for the Child Neurology Society, and was elected to the board as the councillor for the East, 2023-2025.

Scientifically, she focuses on neurocutaneous melanosis[8] [9] and is building a registry of children with this rare disease;[10] paraneoplastic syndromes;[11] [12] and ependymomas.[13]

She stepped into the role of editor-in-chief of Pediatric Neurology in 2022. Prior to that, she was on the editorial board of the Journal of Child Neurology, where she edited a special issue on Pediatric Neurooncology in 2016[14] and recorded a podcast as well.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ashwal . Steve . Child Neurology: Its Origins, Founders, Growth and Evolution . 2021 . Elsevier Science . Netherlands . 9780323858151 . 566.
  2. Roach . E. S. . Welcoming the New Editor-In-Chief of Pediatric Neurology: Yasmin Khakoo, MD . Pediatric Neurology . Dec 2021 . 125 . 61 . 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2021.09.015. 34715989 .
  3. Web site: Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism Award . Child Neurology Society . 26 December 2023.
  4. Web site: FINDING AN UNEXPECTED CALLING: 8 Questions with Child Neurologist Yasmin Khakoo . Children's Brain Tumor Foundation . 2 July 2021 . 26 December 2023.
  5. Web site: Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism Award . Child Neurology Society . 26 December 2023.
  6. Web site: Yasmin Khakoo, MD . Weill Cornell Medical School.
  7. Web site: Adcancing Women in Academics Subcommittee . American Academy of Neurology . 26 December 2023.
  8. Ramaswamy . V . Delaney . H . Haque . S . Marghoob . A . Khakoo . Y . Spectrum of central nervous system abnormalities in neurocutaneous melanocytosis . Dev Med Child Neurol . Jun 2012 . 54 . 6 . 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04275.x. 22469364 .
  9. Schaff . LR . Marghoob . A . Rosenblum . MK . Meyer . R . Khakoo . Y . Malignant transformation of neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) following immunosuppression . Pediatric Dermatology . Jul 2009 . 36 . 4 . 497–500 . 10.1111/pde.13804. 30868657 . 6620153 .
  10. Web site: A Registry for Patients with Neurocutaneous Melanocytosis . Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center . 26 December 2023.
  11. Patel . A . Fischer . C . Lin . YC . Basu . EM . Kushner . BH . De Braganca . K . Khakoo . Y . Treatment and revaccination of children with paraneoplastic opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome and neuroblastoma: The Memorial Sloan Kettering experience. . Pediatr Blood Cancer . Aug 2020 . 67 . 8. e28319 . 10.1002/pbc.28319 . 32543116 . 8382509 .
  12. Rossor . Thomas . Yeh . E Ann . Khakoo . Yasmin . OMS Study Group . Diagnosis and Management of Opsoclonus-Myoclonus-Ataxia Syndrome in Children: An International Perspective . Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm . Mar 2022 . 9 . 3 . 1153 . 10.1212/NXI.0000000000001153. free . 35260471 . 8906188 .
  13. De . B . Patterns of relapse for children with localized intracranial ependymoma . J. Neurooncol. . Jun 2018 . 138 . 2 . 435–445 . 10.1007/s11060-018-2815-7. 29511977 . 6756472 .
  14. Special Issue: Pediatric Neuro-oncology . Journal of Child Neurology . October 2016 . 31 . 12 . 26 December 2023.
  15. Web site: Special episode on Pediatric Neuro Oncology . SAGE Neuroscience and Neurology . 26 December 2023.

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