Seminar Series: Dr. Mohammad Qasim Khan

Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease Management Pre- Peri- & Post-Liver Transplantation

Mohammad Qasim Khan

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Western University

Cross Appointed Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Western University

Short Biography:
Dr. Khan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and cross-appointed in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University. He is a clinician researcher, specializing in Advanced and Transplant Hepatology.

After initiating undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, he completed his medical training with distinction at the King Edward Medical University in Lahore, Pakistan. He subsequently pursued post-graduate medical training in the United States where he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. Given his clinical and research interests in liver disease, he pursued advanced fellowship training in Transplant Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Dr. Khan’s areas of research interest include:

  • Optimization and Management of Pre- and Post-liver transplant cardiometabolic conditions, i.e. post-transplant weight gain, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and allograft steatosis;
  • Steatotic Liver Disease, specifically Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD). His work has been published in several high impact journals including Hepatology, The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, among others.

Dr. Khan is a Steering Committee member of the Vanguard Committee of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), and the Research Committee of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL). He was recently invited to participate in the prestigious AASLD-EASL Masterclass in Savannah, Georgia. He previously was a Steering Committee member of the Clinical Practice Special Interest Group of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)

Area of Research:
liver transplantation, steatotic liver disease, MASLD

Date: Friday, March 7
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: PHFM 3015 (Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine) or Zoom (request link by email  epibio@uwo.ca)