Jibran Khokhar
Company: University of Guelph
Title: Professor, University of Guelph
Expert Overview
Jibran Khokhar is an expert on issues of addiction, schizophrenia, adolescence, brain circuitry, alcohol, cannabis, and vaping.
Dr. Khokhar completed his undergraduate training at Queen’s University, and his Ph.D. in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto and CAMH, under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Tyndale.
During this time, Dr. Khokhar was awarded a CIHR Tobacco Use in Special Populations Fellowship. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth College with Dr. Alan Green.
In addition to numerous travel and poster award, Dr. Khokhar held a CIHR Post-doctoral Fellowship as well as NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Dr. Khokhar was recently hired as an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Sciences Department at the University of Guelph. There he researches the chicken-or-egg question of substance use and schizophrenia as well as the impact of adolescent drug use.
Publications/Media Experience
Video | How Do I Talk to My Child About Drugs? - Let the Quran Speak
Video | Talking to Teens about Drugs: Found in Reverse Translation? - TEDxGuelphU
Web | Vaping THC results in similar brain activity to schizophrenia: study - CTV News
Education
Queen’s University
B.Sc.
University of Toronto and CAMH
Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Tyndale
Ph.D
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