Arif Khan

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist; Director, Kids Neuro Clinic; CEO

Arif Khan is a British-trained consultant paediatric neurologist and the founder and chief executive of Neuropedia Children's Neurosciences Center in the United Arab Emirates. He held senior registrar posts at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, the University Hospitals of Leicester and the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, and received the Certificate of Completion of Training in paediatric neurology from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He then worked as a consultant in Leicester, where he led regional services for complex epilepsies, vagus nerve stimulation and the ketogenic diet. In 2015 he moved to Dubai as Head of Children's Services at the American Center for Psychiatry and Neurology. He established Neuropedia in 2018 and launched the Kids Neuro Clinic in Dubai Healthcare City in 2023. He is an associate professor of paediatric neurology at Mohammed Bin Rashid University, has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and wrote the handbook Pediatrics - A Clinical Handbook.