Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut
Shakaib Khan is an assistant professor at UConn Health Center. He completed a consult liaison fellowship at Hartford Hospital. He completed his psychiatry residency training at UConn Health Center. He obtained his medical education at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences in St. Kitts. He worked towards a bachelor’s degree at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He serves as the medical director of the integrated psychiatry program which employs the embedded model to provide psychiatric care. He is also the medical director of the Huntington’s disease program which is a multidisciplinary clinic with psychiatry, neurology, social work, and genetic counseling. He is the principal investigator for the UConn site for Enroll-HD, which is the world’s largest observational study for Huntington’s Disease. He is also the recipient of a grant which designates the Huntington’s Disease program at UConn a Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence. His research interests include the integration of psychiatry and medicine. Some of his contributions include a book chapter looking at the preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative psychiatric conditions as relating to maxillofacial surgery, invited presentation on agitation in medicine and covid-19 and mental health.
