Tariq Khan

After graduation, Dr Khan completed his early years of training in medicine with the joint Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Wessex deanery foundation schools in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and subsequently joined training programme in psychiatry in 2007. With an interest in neuropsychiatry, Dr Khan worked for several years caring for adults, elderly, and adolescents with acquired brain injury and Huntington’s Disease. Since his first consultant post, Dr Khan has worked across several hospitals in the United Kingdom, within NHS (National Health Service, UK), independent sector hospitals and Her Majesty’s Prison Services as a consultant psychiatrist.

Dr Khan has an interest in teaching at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. He was a Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, postgraduate medical education locality tutor for psychiatry trainees. As part of his role as a college tutor, he was responsible for the modernization of local psychiatry training curriculum, liaison with medical education directors, supervision, assessment and mentoring of psychiatry trainee doctors and family medicine trainee doctors during their psychiatry rotations. As part of his own development as a teacher, he completed a number of courses in medical education designed for doctors by HEE (Health Education England) to become a recognised educator and clinical supervisor with General Medical Council of Great Britain. Dr Khan is Academic Psychiatry Faculty member of Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK and with an interest in academia, Dr Khan completed Master of Science degree in Psychiatry with Cardiff University, Wales, UK. In recognition of his accomplishments as a teacher, he was nominated as a trainer of the year by the residents and trainee doctors, and was awarded a (LCEA) local clinical excellence award for services in postgraduate medical education by the Medical Education Department of an NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. 

In addition to educational lead experience, he has leadership, line management and complex decision-making experience at the grade of medical lead for psychiatric inpatient services. Dr Khan completed leadership and management training at one of the United Kingdom’s prestigious executive business schools, Imperial College London.

Dr Khan’s scholarly contributions and interests include systemic reviews, clinical vignette posters, audit and quality improvement publications. 

Dr Khan is a full-time clinical faculty at the University of Toronto in the department of psychiatry and works as a psychiatrist in CYF concurrent disorders program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Recent Publications

Khan T., et al., Systematic Review of Efficacy and Tolerability of Carbamazepine in management of aggression in Neuropsychiatric conditions, Kent Journal of Psychiatry, Dec 2019, Vol 1, Issue 3.

Khan T., et al., Psychopharmacological management of neuropsychiatric disorder in Mucopolysaccharidosis, a clinical case, The Journal of Royal College of Psychiatrists section of neuropsychiatry annual conference.

Khan T., et al., A complex case of religious beliefs and first episode of Psychosis in the acute hospital medical setting, CRMHR-CU Centre for Mental Health Research in association with University of Cambridge.

Honours and Awards

Clinical Excellence Award LCEA for services in Postgraduate Medical Education