Professor Aamir Ghafoor Khan MSc(G), DGM RCP & S(G), FRCP(Lond), FRCP(G), FRCP(Ed), FRCPI(Ire), FEBG(Eu), FRSM(UK), FACP(USA), FACG(USA), AGAF(USA)
Professor Khan is one of the leading gastroenterologists and physicians of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. After having trained in the UK he returned to Pakistan and established the first Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar in 2011 and a dedicated hepatitis outpatient clinic providing free medicine to poor patients and free consultation to poor patients from the neighboring country Afghanistan with almost 30,000 patients seen yearly.
Professor Khan is Past President of the Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy.
Professor Khan is also Federation lead of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK, Chief examiner and host of MRCP(UK) PACES exam in Pakistan. He is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is an examiner for MRCP(UK) and FCPS exams; he was instrumental in establishing the MRCP(UK) Clinical Exam (PACES) in Pakistan in 2020.
Professor Khan serves on various editorial boards and is a reviewer for journals such as the Arab Journal of Gastroenterology, the Hepatitis Journal of Iran, and the Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology. He is a core committee member of the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) Guidelines Committee and a frequent speaker at various international gastroenterology and hepatology meetings; his unit is actively engaged in clinical research in the field of gastroenterology.