Dr. (Lt. Colonel) Md. Kabir Ahmed Khan

Dr. Lt Colonel (Retd) Md Kabir Ahmed Khan has over 32 years of experience working in local and international healthcare facilities. After completion of his medical graduation in 1986, he began his medical career in the Bangladesh Army Medical Corps. Initially, he began his career as a medical administrator and public health expert. However, after multiple national and international military deployments, he entered into the family medicine residency because of its holistic health approach fit to the community, family, and patient-based perspective. During the tenure of his career, he was involved in commanding hospitals, looking after the patients as a family medicine consultant, instructors in medical institutions, post-grade medical examiner in national and international arena, numerous research work organizing and participating in many seminars, workshops, and field medical camps.

One of the first-generation residencies trained fellow of BCPS in Family Medicine, he holds a longstanding interest in making an effective contribution in strengthening primary care in the country. He is an active member and faculty of the Academy of Family Physicians of Bangladesh and Bangladesh College of General Practitioners through which he is spearheading the movement for the return of trusted family doctor tradition in Bangladesh and also working with Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS), as member secretary in faculty of Family Medicine. After retirement from the army, he is presently practicing as a full-time family physician at Praava Health and also working as an intermittent consultant in the National Urban Primary Health Care Delivery Project under MoLGRD&C, Government of Bangladesh.