Karim moved to Canada in 1997 [3] and was hired at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in July 2000.

Currently, he is a professor at UBC [4] and the Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA).

[5] Over the time of Karim Khan’s office as the Editor-in-Chief, the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) rose from being 12th-ranked journal in the sports science and medicine field with an impact factor of 3.7 in 2012,[6] increasing its impact factor each year [7] to one of the leaders in this field.

[9] The quality of the authorship has been lauded for drawing leaders in the fields of sports medicine and physiotherapy in particular [10] and for its multidisciplinary content.

[11] Khan 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.