Karim M. Khan

Karim M. Khan AO is a Canadian/Australian 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 moved to Canada from Australia in 1997 [3] and was hired at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 2000. Currently, he is the Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA).[4]

Karim M. Khan

AO
Born
Karim Miran-Khan
EducationUniversity of Melbourne
Medical career
ProfessionSports and exercise physician
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Australia (2019)

Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM)

Over the time of Karim Khan’s office as the Editor-in-Chief, the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) rose from being a middle-ranked journal in the sports science and medicine field with an impact factor of 3.7 in 2012,[5] rapidly increasing its impact factor each year [6] to one of the leaders in this field. It had a 2020 impact factor of 12.68.[7]

Clinical Sports Medicine

Along with Peter Brukner, Karim Khan has published 5 editions of the seminal textbook Clinical Sports Medicine. It has been described as the Bible of Sports Medicine.[8] The quality of the authorship has been lauded for drawing leaders in the fields of sports medicine and physiotherapy in particular [9] and for its multidisciplinary content.[10]

Tendon and Physical Activity Research

He 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.[11]

He has been credited with promoting the importance of Physical Activity for general health.[12][13]

He has published over 400 works with over 30,000 citations and with an H-index of 96.[14]

References
  1. "Professor Karim Khan AO – AFLUA". aflua.com.au. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  2. "Professor Karim Khan Awarded Honorary Fellowship". The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. 8 October 2014.
  3. Government of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (13 April 2018). "Biography – IMHA Scientific Director: Dr. Karim Khan - CIHR". cihr-irsc.gc.ca.
  4. "Karim Khan". Researchgate. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  5. "Impact Factors and Article Influence Scores for Journals in Sports Medicine and Science in 2013". www.sportsci.org.
  6. "British Journal of Sports Medicine Impact Factor 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | Resurchify". www.resurchify.com. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  7. "British Journal of Sports Medicine". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2019.
  8. Landry, Mireille (2014). "Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine". Physiotherapy Canada. 66 (1): 109–110. doi:10.3138/ptc.66.1.rev2. ISSN 0300-0508. PMC 3941124.
  9. Palma, Stuart. "In review: sports medicine book and other items". The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
  10. Edwards, T (2007). "Clinical sports medicine, 3rd edn". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 41 (3): 183–184. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2006.030312. ISSN 0306-3674. PMC 2465238.
  11. Khan, K. M.; Cook, J. L.; Kannus, P.; Maffulli, N.; Bonar, S. F. (16 March 2002). "Time to abandon the "tendinitis" myth: Painful, overuse tendon conditions have a non-inflammatory pathology". BMJ. 324 (7338): 626–627. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7338.626. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 1122566. PMID 11895810.
  12. Holmes, David (7 July 2012). "Karim Khan: good sport". The Lancet. 380 (9836): 20. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61113-1. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 22770447. S2CID 36425122.
  13. Trost, Stewart G.; Blair, Steven N.; Khan, Karim M. (February 2014). "Physical inactivity remains the greatest public health problem of the 21st century: evidence, improved methods and solutions using the '7 investments that work' as a framework". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 48 (3): 169–170. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2013-093372. ISSN 1473-0480. PMID 24415409. S2CID 21313286.
  14. "Karim M Khan". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
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