Kiran Khan, M.D.

Biography

Kiran Khan, M.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in nephrology and has a clinical interest in transplant nephrology at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Khan earned her medical degree at The Aga Khan University Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the UT Health Science Center at Houston and received advanced training in nephrology through a fellowship at UT Southwestern.

She also holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Dr. Khan joined the UT Southwestern faculty in October 2021.

She is the author of several research articles.

Personal Note

Dr. Khan’s philosophy of care comes from Frances Peabody's "Care of the Patient," an address delivered in 1926 to graduating students at Harvard Medical School:

The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy, and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

The printed booklet was given to Dr. Khan as house staff at the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, Texas, by her mentor, Dr. Cheves Smythe, who was also the founding dean of her medical college at The Aga Khan University.