Kamran Abbasi

Kamran Abbasi is a doctor, medical editor, and cricket writer. He is executive editor of the British Medical Journal.

Education

Educated at Oakwood School and Thomas Rotherham College in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Kamran Abbasi qualified in medicine from Leeds University in 1992, and then trained in general and internal medicine in Yorkshire and London.^[1]

Career

Dr. Abbasi is a previous acting editor of the BMJ and a past editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization^[2]. In other roles he has worked as a chief executive and medical director of medical education and health information companies, and as a freelance consultant, writer, and editor. Dr. Abbasi has written on a broad range of topics in medicine and international health, including a major series on the World Bank and its role in global health.

Other

Dr. Abbasi is editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Primary Care, Imperial College, London; Patron, South Asian Health Foundation; and a Member of the General Advisory Council of the King's Fund. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London. Dr Abbasi is a cricket writer and blogger for Cricinfo.com with a particular expertise in Pakistan cricket and the politics of cricket.^[3] He writes for Dawn, Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper, among other freelance writing and editing.

In October 2004, when Dr. Abbasi was acting editor, the BMJ published a personal view in which author Derek Summerfield expressed his concern at what he saw as systematic violations of the fourth Geneva Convention by the Israeli army in Gaza. In addition to responses sent to the website, almost 1000 emails were sent directly to Dr. Abbasi. An analysis of all these emails provides a less benign view of what editors face when entering this thorny debate.^[4]

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