Mehraneh

Khalighi

MD

biography

Dr. Khalighi is the Director of the Preoperative Medicine Clinic at the Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care Systems and a University of Washington clinical associate professor of medicine. Her practice is focused on comprehensive preoperative medicine consultation for her patients with complex medical problems while helping them achieve their overall health care goals and outcomes that are important to them. She is active in several quality improvement measures to improve the care of surgical patients.

Education & Training 

• MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (1996–2000)
• Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2000–2003)
• Seattle Children’s Hospital and UW Medicine Center of Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety Certificate Program, Seattle, WA (2015–2016)

Honors

• VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Sustained Superior Performance Award (2010)
• Practitioner Lead in Quality & Safety (PLQS) Award (2021–22)

Clinical Interests

• Hospital medicine
• Patient quality and safety
• Preoperative medicine

Rsearch interests

• Perioperative Management of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
• Perioperative Optimization of Glucose Control in Patients with Diabetes
• Preoperative Frailty Screening and Management
• Preoperative Sleep-Related Disorder Screening and Management

publication highlights

• Khalighi M, Yazici N, Cornia P. Preoperative insulin intensification to improve day of surgery blood glucose control. Federal Practitioner 2022; 39(5):S28-S33, S34a.
• Khalighi M. (Venous Thromboembolism) contributing author in Kanjee Z, Liao JM. Cases in Hospital Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2020.
• Setia S, Khalighi M, Rooke G. (Perioperative Care of Elderly Patients) contributing authors in Blackley Jackson M, Huang R, Kaplan E, Mookherjee S. Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook Ed. 3. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020.
• Khalighi M, Kaplan E, Kim H. (Parkinson’s Disease) contributing authors in Blackley Jackson M, Huang R, Kaplan E, Mookherjee S. Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook Ed. 3. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020.
• Haider M, Khalighi M. Management of monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance. In: Mookherjee S, Beste L, Klein J, Wright J (EDS). Chalk Talks in Internal Medicine, Scripts for Clinical Teaching (2020). New York: Springer.
• Khalighi, M. (Malignancy-Associated Hypercalcemia) in Clinical Decision Support: Hospital Medicine, 2nd edition, edited by Miller C, Burger A, Lai C, Pahwa, A 2017. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. Wilmington, DE.
• Khalighi, M. (Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy) in Clinical Decision Support: Hospital Medicine, 2nd edition, edited by Miller C, Burger A, Lai C, Pahwa, A 2017. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. Wilmington, DE. 
• Khalighi, M. (2015) Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy. In Clinical Decision Support: Hospital Medicine, edited by Miller C, Burger A, Lai C, Pahwa, A. Wilmington, DE: Decision Support in Medicine, LLC.
• Khalighi, M. (2015) Malignancy-Associated Hypercalcemia. In Clinical Decision Support: Hospital Medicine, edited by Miller C, Burger A, Lai C, Pahwa, A. Wilmington, DE: Decision Support in Medicine, LLC.