Awards

Titled Professor - 2022

Floyd and Reba Smith Professor in Respiratory Disease

About Babar Khan

Dr. Babar Khan earned his M.B. and B.S. from Dow Medical College in 1999. Upon graduating, he continued his medical training at the University of Illinois where he completed an internal medicine residency in 2005. He later completed his M.S. In 2010 and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine in 2011 at Indiana University (IU). Since finishing his degree and fellowship, he has taught at the IU School of Medicine (IUSM). In 2021, he also earned the additional, honorary title of Floyd and Reba Smith Investigator in Respiratory Disease.

Khan’s research focuses on the critical intersection of acute illness and the aging brain. He is a patient oriented-translational/clinical researcher with a principal focus on developing a biomarker profile among delirious patients in the intensive care unit to predict their long-term cognitive, physical, and psychological morbidity.

In addition, he directs the Critical Care Recovery Center (CCRC), located at Eskenazi Health Services. CCRC is an innovative center balancing research and clinical services that sought to implement the advances in the science of “post-ICU syndrome” for expeditious recovery and rehabilitation of ICU survivors. He is also a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc.