Karim Khan is a Sport and Exercise Physician (FACSEP, Australia; Dip CASEM, Canada) and Professor of Sports Medicine at the Department of Family Practice and School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. As a team clinician, he worked with the Australian Olympic Women’s Basketball Team (Opals), the Australian Junior Women’s Hockey Team and various professional basketball teams in Australia (NBL). He served as a sports physician at the Australian Ballet and Australian Ballet School in the 1990s.
As a researcher, Karim completed his PhD (University of Melbourne) on tendon injuries and bone health in 1998. His work with colleagues contributed to better understanding of: tendon pathogenesis, the role if imaging in managing tendon problems and patient-reported measures of evaluating tendons. His work in bone health included studies of the treatment of stress fractures in younger people and the prevention of osteoporosis and falls with exercise in older people.
Karim served as Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) from 2008-2020 and he was also the inaugural Editor of the open access BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine 2017-2019. He was a social media pioneer who launched the BJSM blog and content on YouTube (>8 million views), Twitter (>77 K followers), Facebook (>100K followers), Instagram, and podcasts (>5 million listens to over 400 episodes).

As a research leader, Karim has been part of grants related to exercise and health that exceed $40 million and he has been primary supervisor for 14 PhD students. Since 2017, he has served as the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA).