Karim Khan, professor in the Department of Family Practice and the School of Kinesiology, has achieved international recognition for pioneering clinical trials of exercise training among seniors vulnerable to falls and fractures. He was a leader in the field of tendon injuries: he published key studies on pathogenesis, imaging and prognosis as well as co-developing the most widely-used patient-reported outcome measure (VISA scores). Professor Khan has coauthored almost 400 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited over 55,000 times (H-index 115).

Professor Khan served as Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) from 2017-2025. From 2008-2020 he was Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), the highest-ranked journal in sports science/medicine. In that role, he was a social media pioneer using YouTube, podcasts, a mobile app, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to reach over well over 10 million users in the sports medicine domain. He is the co-author of the multi-volume, best-selling textbook Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine (6th edition).

Khan has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Norway’s Idrettshøgskole (2018), The University of Edinburgh (2019) and McGill University (2025). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to sport and exercise medicine, and for the promotion of physical activity for community health (2019).