Professor Fary Khan AM

Fary is Director of Rehabilitation at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia, and Vice Chair of the International Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). She was inducted into the prestigious US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for outstanding contribution to rehabilitation medicine and disability in 2022.

Fary is the Inaugural Academic Fellow on the Board of the Australian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFRM), Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP), and elected board member of the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (RMSANZ). She is the Australian representative (AFRM) for the Asia-Oceania Society of NeuroRehabilitation. She is an executive member of various national and international committees including the WHO-ISPRM Liaison Committee, the UN-ISPRM Liaison Committee, the Women’s Health Task Force, the Cancer Rehabilitation Network ISPRM, ISPRM Disaster Rehabilitation Committee and ClinFIT Taskforce, RMSANZ Disaster Rehabilitation-SIG, and others.

Fary has over 20 years of experience in neurological, cancer, and trauma rehabilitation. She set up evidence-based specialised rehabilitation programs for specific conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, stroke, oncology, musculoskeletal injuries and disaster management.

She was awarded the Sydney Licht Award by the ISPRM in 2018, the Haim Ring Award in 2020 for education and capacity-building efforts; and the Joel A. DeLisa Lectureship Award-2021, by the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) USA and many others.