Kamran Abbasi

Kamran Abbasi is the editor-in-chief of the ''British Medical Journal'' (''BMJ''), a physician, visiting professor at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, editor of the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine'' ''(JRSM)'', journalist, cricket writer and broadcaster, who contributed to the expansion of international editions of the ''BMJ'' and has argued that medicine cannot exist in a political void.

He was raised in Yorkshire, graduated in medicine from Leeds School of Medicine in 1992 and worked in general medicine before commencing a career in journal editing in 1997, beginning with the ''BMJ'', followed by the ''Bulletin of the World Health Organization'' and later the ''JRSM''. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Abbasi has been a consultant editor for ''PLOS Medicine'' and has created e-learning resources for professional development of doctors, including BMJ Learning and the Royal Society of Medicine's video lecture service.

He has authored books on cricket; ''Zindabad; The English Chronicles: a Modern History of Pakistan Cricket'', published in 2012 and ''Englistan: An immigrant's journey on the turbulent winds of Pakistan cricket'' in 2020.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has produced a series in the ''JRSM'' titled "Spotlight on COVID-19", and written on the UK's response to COVID-19, including the provision of personal protective equipment for frontline staff, preparedness for the pandemic, the fear of going into hospital and political accountability. Provided by Wikipedia