About Dr. Khajavi : Dr. Khajavi's CV
Curriculum Vitae

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Kaveh Khajavi, MD, FACS
Board Certified
American Board of Neurological Surgery

Education / Training:
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia -August 1981 May 1985
Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry)

Georgetown University School of Medicine -August 1985 May 1989
Washington, DC
Doctor of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas -June 1989 - Feb. 1991
General Surgery Internship

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio - March 1991 July 1996
Neurosurgery Residency

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Staff Appointments:
Georgia Spine & Neurosurgery Center, L.L.C. - Oct. 2003 - Present
2675 N. Decatur Rd, Suite 710
Decatur, GA 30033 (DeKalb Medical Center)

WellStar Neurosurgery, L.L.C. - July 2002 – Sept. 2003
30 South Medical Drive
Marietta, GA 30060
(Kennestone Hospital)

Houston Spine and Neurosurgery Center - July 2000 – Mar 2002
18333 Egret Bay Blvd. Suite 200
Houston, TX 77058
(Clear Lake Regional Medical Center)

Wm. Beaumont Army Medical Center - Aug. 1996 Oct. 1997
El Paso, TX
Staff Neurosurgeon

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Assistant Professor - Nov. 1997 July 2000
Department of Surgery
Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Assistant Professor - Aug. 1999 – July 2000
Department of Neurology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

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Professional Affiliations:

• Diplomat of the American Board of Neurological Surgery
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• Georgia Neurosurgical Society
• Medical Association of Georgia
• DeKalb Medical Society

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Publications
1. Poffenbarger GJ and Khajavi K. Management of Solitary Intracranial Abscess.
In Textbook of Neurological Surgery:
Principles and Practice, Batjer H and Loftus C (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 2002, p3142-3150

2. Gullick R and Khajavi K.
Thoracic Disk Degeneration and Pain.
Textbook of Neurological Surgery: Principles and Practice, Batjer H and Loftus C (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 2002, p1651-1656

3. Jabbari B, Khajavi K, Rao K.
Medullary dystonia.
J of Movement Disorders 14(4): 698-700, 1999.

4. Perl J II, Tkach JA, Porras Jimenez M, Leiber M, Obuchowski N, Ross J, Ding X, Ruggieri PM, Shearer D, Khajavi K, Masryk T.
Hemorrhage detection using MRI imaging of in the setting of acute stroke:
An in vivo model. Amer J of Neurorad 20(10): 1863-70, 1999

5. Khajavi K, Comair Y, Wyllie E, Palmer J, Morris H, Hahn JF.
Surgical management of pediatric tumor associated epilepsy.
J Child Neurology 14(l):15 25, 1999.

6. Khajavi K, Ayzman 1, Schearer D, Jones S, Prayson RA, Levy JH, Hahn JF, Chyatte D. Prevention of chronic cerebral vasospasm in dogs with milrinone.
Neurosurgery 40:354 363, 1997.

7. Khajavi K, Comair Y, Prayson R, Wyllie E, Palmer J, Estes M, Hahn JF.
Childhood ganglioglioma and, medically intractable epilepsy:
A clinicopathological study of 15 patients and a review of the literature. Pediatr Neurosurg 22:181 188,1995.

8. Prayson R, Khajavi K, Comair Y.
Cortical architectural abnormalities and MIB1 (Ki-67)
Immunoreactivity in ganglioglioma (GG): a study of 60 patients with intracranial tumors. J Neuropath Exp Neurol 54(4):513 520,1995.

9. Khajavi K and Chyatte D. Subarachnoid hemorrhage: an overview. In Neurobase, DeMeter S. (Ed), Arbor Day Pub Corp, 1995.

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