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Dr Khalid Ali

Dr Khalid Ali (MBBS, FRCP, MD)

Reader (Associate Professor) in Geriatrics
E: khalid.ali10@nhs.net
T: +44 (0)1273 523360
Location: Audrey Emerton Building, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Eastern Road, Brighton, BN2 5BE

DA: Olivia Cottington
Email: CEMedicineDA@bsms.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Medication related harm in older people, stroke rehabilitation, participatory research with older people including underserved and ethnic minorities, vascular compliance in stroke and transient ischaemic attacks.

Research areas: Medication-related harm in older people, stroke rehabilitation, and medical humanities.

Biography

Dr Khalid Ali is a reader in Geriatrics and stroke medicine in BSMS, and a consultant geriatrician at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Haywards Heath. Dr Ali is the Ageing specialty research lead in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, Regional Research Delivery Network (KSS-RRDN), and NIHR mentor. He is the associate editor for visual and performing arts in Medical Humanities British Medical Journal.

He was a member of the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party producing the 'National Guidelines for acute stroke' in 2023, and a member of the “Rehabilitation after Stroke Guidelines” Development Group (GDG): a joint document that was commissioned by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in London, with Guidelines published in June 2013 and October 2023.

He was a Visiting Professor at Weill Cornell University and the Liz Claiborne Centre for Humanism in Medicine, New York in October 2016. He served as the scientific abstracts editor in Age and Ageing Journal for 4 years.

In November 2018 he published his book ‘The Cinema Clinic: Reflections on film and medicine’. Along with clinical and academic colleagues, he founded the first Arab Forum for Medicine in Film ‘Egypt Medfest’ in January 2017.

He was nominated for Sussex Research Impact Awards- 2015 for ‘Championing well-being in old age through creative research and networking’, and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity at BSMS in July 2024.

Research

His research interests focus on medication-related harm in older people; he is the chief investigator for the PRIME (Predicting medication-related harm in older people post hospital discharge) study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). The study recruited 1,280 patients, and resulted in major publications in high impact journals. Most recently his research interests expanded to include 'social connectedness in care home communities' and leading a networking group with a team of gerontologists from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

Personal tutor for a cohort of BSMS students.
OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) examiner.
CBD (Case-based Discussion) examiner for year 3, and year 5 students.
IRP (Individual research Projects) supervisor.
Module 306 Lecturer: introduction to Geriatrics, stroke medicine.
Academic F1 (Foundation year 1) interviews panel member.
Clinical (bedside) teaching and supervision for BSMS students placed in Princess Royal Hospital.
Panel member of the Chris Bulpitt Prize award committee for ageing research for undergraduate medical students in the UK.

Postgraduate teaching and supervision

NIHR mentor.
PhD co-supervisor for ARC-KSS funded thesis for 'Recurrrent hospital admission for older people with dementia'
Internal examiner for MD and PhD degrees at University of Sussex.
External examiner for MD and PhD theses in ageing research in the UK.
Panel member in annual progression review of MD and PhD theses at BSMS.

Selected publications

Ali K, Mensah E, Stevenson J M, Nyangoma S, Hamer V, Parekh N, Rajkumar C, J Graham Davies J G, Touray M, Gage H, and Fowler-Davis S on behalf of study collaborators. Results of a randomised controlled study to reduce medication-related harm in older adults after hospital discharge. In press in ‘Age and Ageing’ scientific abstracts supplement, 2026.

Jamil M, Sweed H, Abu-Hashim R, Shaltoot H, Ali K. Medication-related harm (MRH) in Egyptian older adults post-hospital discharge: a health-care challenge, Quality in Ageing and Older Adults (2024), Vol. 25 No. 4, pp. 248-263.https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-11-2023-0074.

O’Flaherty D, Ali K. Recommendations for Upper Limb Motor Recovery: An Overview of the UK and European Rehabilitation after Stroke Guidelines 2023. Healthcare 2024 Jul 18;12(14):1433. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12141433.

Browne B, Ali K, Ford E, Tabet N. Determinants of hospital readmissions in older people with dementia: a narrative review. BMC Geriatr 2024 Apr 12;24(1):336. doi: 10.1186/s12877-024-04905-6. PMID: 38609878; PMCID: PMC11015733.

Ali K. Silver Hair on the Silver Screen: Narratives of Ageing in Films. JAGS 2023,https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18633

Ali K, Mensah E, Stevenson J, et al. Implementation of a medicine management plan (MMP) to reduce medication-related harm (MRH) in older people post-hospital discharge: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Geriatrics 22, 850 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03555-w

Hussain A, Ali K, Parekh N, Stevenson JM, Davies JG, Bremner S, Rajkumar C. Characterising older adults’ risk of harm from blood-pressure lowering medications: a sub-analysis from the PRIME study. Age and Ageing 2022 Mar 1;51(3):afac045. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac045.

Stevenson JM, Parekh N, Chua K-C, Davies JG, Rajkumar C, Ali K. Frailty is a predictor of medication-related harm requiring healthcare utilisation. Age and Ageing 2022, Volume 51, Issue 3, afac054, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac054

Shafizadeh M, Pavinpour S, Ali K. ‘Effect of home‑based exercise on falls in community‑dwelling older adults: an umbrella review. Sport Sciences for Health, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-022-00993-2

Mohsen Shafizadeh, Sally Fowler-Davies, K Ali, et al. Effects of enriched physical activity environments on balance and fall prevention in older adults: A scoping review. Journal of Ageing and Physical Activity 2020,https://doi.org/10.1123/japa.2019-0395

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