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Amir K. Jaffer, MD
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Associate Section Head for Hospital Medicine
Medical Director, IMPACT Center and Anticoagulation Clinic
Department of General Internal Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio Amir K. Jaffer, the Associate Section Head for Hospital Medicine, also serves as the Medical Director of the IMPACT (Internal Medicine Preoperative Assessment Consultation and Treatment) Center and the Anticoagulation Clinic within the Section of Hospital Medicine in the Department of General Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Jaffer received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. His postgraduate training includes internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He is board certified in internal medicine and has a busy practice in hospital and perioperative medicine.
Dr Jaffer is actively involved in patient care, education, research, and administration. He was selected as one of the Best Doctors in America 2005-2006 by Best Doctors®, an independent organization that uses exhaustive annual surveys of the medical profession to identify the doctors who are the best in their specialties. Dr Jaffer is currently leading the working group to develop the advanced core curriculum for third-year medical students at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University. He has conducted original research and published in several peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. He will be an Associate Editor of a soon-to-be-published book entitled Hospital Medicine Secrets. Dr Jaffer speaks nationally within his areas of interest and expertise, which include treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism, prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation therapy, specifically perioperative management, and medical consultation.
Dr Jaffer is an active member of several professional organizations including the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), the Anticoagulation Forum (AF), the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), and the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH). He is a member of the Education Committee of SHM, served on the Annual Meeting Planning Committee for the 2004/2005 SHM meeting, and will be the Precourse Director of the Perioperative and Consultative Medicine Precourse at the 2006 SHM meeting in Washington, DC.
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