Karim M. Khan

Karim M. Khan is a former 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" and an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) in 2014. Professor Khan moved to Canada from Australia in 1997 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).
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, rapidly increasing its impact factor each year to one of the leaders in this field. It had a 2020 impact factor of 12.68.
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. The quality of the authorship has been lauded for drawing leaders in the fields of sports medicine and physiotherapy in particular and for its multidisciplinary content.
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.
He has been credited with promoting the importance of Physical Activity for general health.
He has published over 400 works with over 30,000 citations and with an H-index of 96.