Karim M. Khan
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November 23, 1960
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. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by McGill University, Canada, in 2025. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mcgill-university_mcgill-has-announced-its-spring-2025-honorary-activity-7325953371738173443-eQW1/
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]. He was the Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) from 2017-2025.[5]
During Karim Khan’s tenure as the Editor-in-Chief, the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) rose from being the 12th-ranked journal in sports science and medicine 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]
Clinical Sports Medicine
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]
