- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Pakistan
Hashim Ali Khan
Hashim Ali Khan is a passionate mentor and eye care physician with remarkable liaisons across the globe. After graduating with honors from the leading optometry school in Pakistan at a very young age, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry in Pakistan. Dr. Khan is now serving his homeland by providing specialized vision care. He is the founding Editor-In-chief of Pakistan’s first peer-reviewed optometry journal, chief consultant at SEHHAT foundation hospital, and maintains his own private practice. Dr. Khan is also a distinguished editor of the Journal of Ocular Infection and Inflammation, reviewer for many international journals, as well as author of various manuscripts describing novel findings such as serpiginous choroiditis on OCT-angio and Optical coherence tomography angiography. He also provides image reading and OCT/OCTA grading and interpretation services to many centers in Pakistan. His most notable contributions towards the field of optometry are the international optometric atlas, Cochrane crowds and American Academy of Optometry, up-skilling many new entrants delivering online study group lectures, and cultivating one to two new well-skilled and competent clinicians annually. Dr. Khan is a member of many professional organization’s scientific boards, he’s a Principal Investigator of the National Eye Study aimed at various ocular parameters, epidemiology and disease patterns across Pakistan, he was a member of the “expert panel discussion on dry eye” at 3rd International Vision Sciences Conference, and a TFOS Global Ambassador for Pakistan. He was the first clinician in Pakistan to ever earn the Developing Country Eye Researcher Fellowship award by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in 2017, and he pioneered texture heterogeneity of choriocapillaris in healed choriocapilloropathies describing it as one of multiple mechanisms behind choroidal neovascularization in healed uveatides. Inspired by Professor Kelly K. Nichols, Dr. Khan recently has developed an interest in dry eye and other related ocular surface diseases (OSD), and his ongoing work includes OSD epidemiological studies as well as efficacy of different concentrations of Autologous Serum Eye drops for management of dry eye. He enjoys intense fitness workouts, listening to Shakira, and collecting branded writing pens, printed books and ties.