Aliya Khan
Clinical Professor, Medicine

Aliya Khan, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACE, FASBMR

Aliya Khan is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Geriatrics at McMaster University, Director of the Calcium Disorders Clinic, and Director of the Fellowship in Metabolic Bone Disease at McMaster University. She graduated from the University of Ottawa Medical School with honors. She trained in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology and completed a fellowship in Metabolic Bone Disease at the University of Toronto. She has published over 400 scientific papers and numerous chapters and books on osteoporosis and parathyroid disease.
Dr. Khan led the development of global guidelines for parathyroid disease, osteonecrosis of the jaw, new diagnostic criteria for hypophosphatasia, treatment guidelines for X-linked hypophosphatemia in addition to Canadian guidelines for osteoporosis. She is the co-chair for developing international best practice recommendations on bone mineral density reporting supported by the 10 international scientific societies including ISCD, IOF, Radiologic Society of North America.
She is a clinician researcher and is the principle investigator evaluating novel therapies for parathyroid disease including PTH and PTH analogues as well PTH1receptor agonists for the treatment of hypoparathyroidism including palopegteriparatide, natpara, eneboparatide as well as the calcilytic molecule encalaret for the treatment of autosomal dominant hypocalcemia as well as cinacalcet for the medical management of primary hyperparathyroidism.
She has received numerous national and international awards including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medalfor excellence, International Hypoparathyroidism Award, International Osteoporosis Foundation award for publishing excellence and recognized by Osteoporosis Canada for outstanding contributions to research and education. In 2024 she was the recipient of the Woman Physician of the Year Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP) honoring an outstanding woman physician with a distinguished career in areas of exceptional patient care, medical education and/or research. She also received the ACP Humanitarian of the Year Award given for outstanding contributions to humanism in medicine in 2024. In 2024 she received the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism Dr. Jacques Genest Lecture Award. In December 2024 she was awarded the ORTOMED Medal from the Italian Society of Ortopedia e Medicina for outstanding contributions to metabolic bone disease.
She is recognized as being in the top 0.1% of the world experts in hyperparathyroidism by Expertscape.