Sonia Khan

Consultant Neurologist and Epileptologist; Head of the Epilepsy Division and Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

Sonia Khan is a consultant neurologist and epileptologist at Prince Sultan Military Medical City in Riyadh. Born in Madinah, she graduated from King Saud University in 1987 with distinction, trained in internal medicine at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and in the United Kingdom, and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1998 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2007. From 1992 she was a fellow in adult neurology at Riyadh Military Hospital, and in 1995 and 1996 she trained in epileptology at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and the University of California, Los Angeles. She became consultant in general neurology in 1997 and consultant in epileptology in 1998, and since 2005 has led clinical neurosciences and the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. She is Training Program Director for the Saudi Board of Neurology, was President of the Saudi Epilepsy Society, and is an associate editor of Neurosciences Journal.