Professor Khalid Khan
Editor, Writer, and Consultant in Granada
Professor Khalid Khan, Director of Health Education Research Ltd, is Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Investigator at the University of Granada, Spain. He has been Professor at the University of Birmingham and the Queen Mary University of London, UK, Sims Black Professor at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, UK, and Spinoza Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With an h-index>100 he has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers and supervised 26 higher-degree theses. He graduated in medicine from Aga Khan University in its first health faculty cohort. Higher training at McMaster University led him to an academic career, focusing on patient-oriented clinical research. Khalid has contributed to many trials and meta-analyses: he has run 48 primary research trials, recruiting 979,242 participants, and has published 149 systematic reviews, collating data from 6415 studies with 68,798,079 participants. Professor Khalid Khan, gynaecologist formerly, is the lead author of 'Systematic Reviews to Support Evidence-Based Medicine', which won a BMA Medical Book award. His Core Outcomes in Women’s and Newborn Health (CROWN) initiative was awarded a BMA Strutt and Harper grant to help reduce research waste. He is former Editor of BJOG, EBM-BMJ and BMC Med Educ. Khalid is among the top 2% of most influential scientists in the world.