Jibran Khokhar

Please join us on Thursday, September 19, 2024, from 11:00-12:00 for our next Perspectives in Youth Mental Health Speaker Series – 2024 by Jibran Khokhar. This seminar is sponsored by the Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health.

Speaker

Jibran Khokhar
University of Western Ontario

Title

Vaping, Edibles and Adolescent Brain: What We Found in Translation

Speaker Biography

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. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth College with Dr. Alan GreenDr. 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 Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translational Neuropsychopharmacology in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Schulich School of Medicine at Western University. Since starting his independent research group the lab has published 53 papers and received nearly $6 million in funding from federal and industry sources. Dr. Khokhar research revolves around establishing the behavioural and neural correlates of various types of vulnerabilities to substance use, starting from genetic risk to effects on development. He is also very interested in the pharmacokinetics of various routes of drug exposure, and has established tools and methods to study emerging routes of administration such as vaping and edibles.

How to participate

The event will be held in the Bowerman Room and will be rebroadcast by Zoom.

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