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Karim M. Khan
AO
Born
Karim Achmed Miran-Khan

November 23, 1960 (1960-11-23)
Eckernfoerde, Germany
CitizenshipAustralian and Canadian
Education
Medical career
ProfessionSports and exercise physician, academic
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine

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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]

Clinical Sports Medicine

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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]

Tendon and physical activity aesearch

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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]

References

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  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", UBC
  5. ^ "Karim Khan". Researchgate. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Impact Factors and Article Influence Scores for Journals in Sports Medicine and Science in 2013". www.sportsci.org.
  7. ^ "British Journal of Sports Medicine Impact Factor 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | Resurchify". www.resurchify.com. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  8. ^ "British Journal of Sports Medicine". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2019.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Palma, Stuart. "In review: sports medicine book and other items". The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "Karim M Khan". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
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