JafarJJafarMD
Neurosurgery • New York, NYProfessor, Neurosurgery, New York University School of Medicine
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530 1st Avenue
Skirball Suite 7W
New York, NY 10016Phone+1 212-263-6312Fax+1 212-263-6992- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Jafar is Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at NYU Langone Medical Center. He did his residency training at The University of Chicago under Dr. Sean Mullan. Following that he was an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he established the stroke research laboratory. He has had a lifelong interest in cerebral blood flow. While in Chicago he also established the cerebral blood flow laboratory and was honored with teacher of the year award. In 1989 he joined the Department of Neurosurgery at NYU and was responsible for the founding of the Division of Cerebrovascular Surgery, as well as the Center for Cerebrovascular disease. Dr. Jafar has had fellowship training with Professor Lindsay Simon at the National Hospital for Nervous Disease, at Queen Square, London, England, and with Professor Ghazi Yasargil in Zurich, Switzerland. He has participated in multiple multi-center trials. He is the author of more than 70 publications, mainly involving cerebrovascular disease, including a textbook on arteriovenous malformations. Dr. Jafar directs the multidisciplinary cerebrovascular center at NYU, which includes interventionalists, surgeons, and neurologists.
Education & Training
University of ChicagoResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1977 - 1982
University of ChicagoInternship, Transitional Year, 1976 - 1977
Shiraz University of Medical SciencesClass of 1976
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1984 - Present
NY State Medical License 1988 - 2025
CT State Medical License 2008 - 2011
IL State Medical License 1978 - 1993- American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- New York Magazine: Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2014
- Top Doctors: New York Metro Area Castle Connolly, 2002-2014
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Discontinuation of Postoperative Prophylactic Antibiotics for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.Yosef Dastagirzada, Carolina Benjamin, Julia Bevilacqua, Jason Gurewitz, Chandra Sen, John G Golfinos, Dimitris Placantonakis, Jafar J Jafar, Seth Lieberman, Rich Lebo...> ;Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base. 2023 Apr 1
- 1 citationsThe Cost Effectiveness of Implementation of a Postoperative Endocrinopathy Management Protocol after Resection of Pituitary Adenomas.Carolina G Benjamin, Yosef Dastagirzada, Julia Bevilacqua, David B Kurland, Kevin Fujita, Chandra Sen, John G Golfinos, Dimitris G Placantonakis, Jafar J Jafar, Seth L...> ;Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base. 2022 Dec 1
- 3 citationsPreoperative flow analysis of arteriovenous malformations and obliteration response after stereotactic radiosurgery.Juan Diego Alzate, Assaf Berger, Kenneth Bernstein, Reed Mullen, Tanxia Qu, Joshua S Silverman, Maksim Shapiro, Peter K Nelson, Eytan Raz, Jafar J Jafar, Howard A Riin...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023 Apr 1
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Other Languages
- French, Arabic, Farsi
Hospital Affiliations
Lenox Hill HospitalNew York, New York
NYU Langone HospitalsNew York, New York
NYC Health + Hospitals / BellevueNew York, New York
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