Rumi Khan, M.D.

Rumi Khan, M.D., FCCP, is a physician and clinical educator in the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas, Austin. He is also the lead physician for ambulatory services and associate program director of the Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship. Additionally, he is an associate professor at Dell Med. Khan brings with him vast experience in building and leading both clinical and educational programs in the field of pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Khan completed his internal medicine residency at New York University/Mount Sinai School of Medicine at Queens Hospital Center, New York, and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he also served as the chief fellow. During his fellowship, Khan was awarded the best researcher award at Michigan Thoracic Society Conferences two times in a row and also won the prestigious GlaxoSmithKline research grant after competing nationally. He started his academic career in 2005 as assistant professor of medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin, where he led the smoking cessation and lung cancer collaborative programs. In 2010 Khan was appointed an appointed an associate professor of medicine at University of Central Florida College of Medicine when he moved to Orlando to help build critical care and pulmonary clinical programs at Orlando Health Hospitals.

Khan was a crucial founding partner in establishing enormously successful intensivist, inpatient and outpatient pulmonary programs of Orlando Health Medical Group. On the academic front he was the founding fellowship program director for pulmonary and pulmonary critical care fellowship programs, and he was the clerkship director for University of Central Florida College of Medicine medical students’ pulmonary and intensive care unit rotations. Khan has also been the founding director of the Orlando Health pulmonary physiology lab housing the PFT and cardiopulmonary exercise programs.

Khan authored many peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and was co-investigator in NIH-funded research projects on mobile phone-based health care. At Dell Med and Ascension Seton, Khan sees patients with complicated advanced pulmonary conditions, manages outpatient clinics and supervises and teaches pulmonary critical care fellows, medical residents and medical students. Khan’s academic interests include advanced pulmonary interstitial diseases, sarcoidosis, difficult-to-control asthma, sepsis, global health and mobile-based health care.