Karim M. Khan | |
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| Born | Karim Achmed Miran-Khan November 23, 1960 Eckernfoerde, Germany |
| Citizenship | Australian and Canadian |
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| Profession | Sports and exercise physician, academic |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Karim M. Khan AO is a former sport and exercise medicine physician who served as editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine from 2008-2020. He was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia in 2019 for "distinguished service to sport and exercise medicine and to the promotion of physical activity for community health" [1] and an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) [2] in 2014.
Professor Khan was born in Germany. His father (Rahim Miran-Khan) was Afghan, his mother (Ingeborg née Kallus) German. His family immigrated to Australia in 1965. Karim moved to Canada in 1997 [3] and was hired at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in July 2000. Currently, he is a professor at UBC [4] and the Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA). [5]
Over the time of Karim Khan’s office as the Editor-in-Chief, the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) rose from being 12th-ranked journal in the sports science and medicine field with an impact factor of 3.7 in 2012, [6] increasing its impact factor each year [7] to one of the leaders in this field. It had a 2021 impact factor of 13.8. [8]
Along with Peter Brukner, Karim Khan published 5 editions of the textbook Brukner and Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine. It has been described as the Bible of Sports Medicine. [9] The quality of the authorship has been lauded for drawing leaders in the fields of sports medicine and physiotherapy in particular [10] and for its multidisciplinary content. [11]
Khan played an important role in changing nomenclature of tendinitis to the preferred term of tendinopathy (or tendinosis) with the insight that the primary pathology is degenerative rather than inflammatory. [12]
He has been credited with promoting the importance of Physical Activity for general health. [13] [14]
He has published over 350 works with over 35,000 citations and an H-index of 101. [15]