20 Facts About Kamran Abbasi

Kamran Abbasi is a Pakistani-English physician, professor, editor and author.

Kamran Abbasi contributed to the expansion of international editions of the BMJ.

Kamran Abbasi was raised in Yorkshire, graduated in medicine from Leeds School of Medicine in 1992 and worked in general medicine before commencing a career in journal editing in 1997, beginning with the BMJ, followed by the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and later the JRSM.

Kamran Abbasi is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Kamran Abbasi has authored books on cricket; Zindabad; The English Chronicles: a Modern History of Pakistan Cricket, published in 2012 and Englistan: An immigrant's journey on the turbulent winds of Pakistan cricket in 2020.

Kamran Abbasi was born in Lahore, Pakistan and moved to Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1974.

Kamran Abbasi completed his early education at Oakwood School before attending the Thomas Rotherham College, both in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Kamran Abbasi took up the post of editorial registrar and then assistant editor, before becoming deputy editor in 2002 and acting editor in 2004.

Kamran Abbasi took up the appointment of editor-in-chief of the BMJ on 1 January 2022, succeeding Fiona Godlee.

Kamran Abbasi became the BMJ's executive editor for content, developing the journal's expansion internationally, digitally, and in print, particularly the BMJ International editions, which he considers his greatest achievement.

In October 2004, while he was acting editor of the BMJ, Kamran Abbasi became the recipient of an unusually large number of responses to a BMJ article written by Derek Summerfield, who published his personal view over what he saw as organised violations of the fourth Geneva Convention by the Israeli army in Gaza and their effects on public health.

Kamran Abbasi specified that "in a state of conflict [those] views will be sometime abrasive and unpalatable" and argued that medicine cannot exist in a political void.

Kamran Abbasi's editorials relating to COVID-19 for the JRSM appear in a series titled "Spotlight on COVID-19".

Kamran Abbasi has been editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine since 2005.

Kamran Abbasi has been appointed visiting professor at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, member of the General Advisory Council of the King's Fund, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London, and patron of the South Asian Health Foundation.

Kamran Abbasi is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Kamran Abbasi has been a consultant editor for PLOS Medicine and has created three e-learning resources for professional development of doctors, including BMJ Learning and the Royal Society of Medicine's video lecture service.

Kamran Abbasi has made contributions on radio and television, particularly with Mark Porter.

Kamran Abbasi has in several years been listed as one of "the 50 most influential BAME people in health", by the Health Service Journal.

Kamran Abbasi was the first Asian columnist in an English cricket publication when he started writing for Wisden Cricket Monthly.