Dr Khalid Rahman, PhD Is a medical researcher, biostatistician, technology innovator, a polyglat, and experienced science communicator
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Today, I am pleased to introduce Dr. Khalid Rahman, one of my favourite health and science writers, and a long-time contributor to my publications. Our shared passion for science, health, and well-being has fostered a spirit of collaboration, and I closely follow his work across several platforms. Dr Rahman’s writing frequently offers me fresh perspectives and inspires new ideas.
What stands out most in his work is his scientific rigor, which he balances skillfully with empathy and a patient-centered approach. Even though Dr Rahman is a scholarly clinician, he crafts his research-based health stories with the sensitivity of an empathetic psychotherapist.
Dr Rahman is also collaborative with a profound community spirit. Our brief conversation today will offer you both insight and inspiration from his background approach to health and well-being.
Hi Dr Rahman, let’s start with your background.
Hi Dr Yildiz, certainly. Thank you for the opportunity. I’m educated as a medical researcher and biostatistician and work as a science communicator. I see myself as an innovator and a lifelong student of medicine, and I am deeply committed to improving people’s quality of life.
My educational background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Unani System of Medicine, an MSc in Bioinformatics, an MSc in Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs, a postgraduate diploma in computer applications, and a PhD in Clinical Research.
My work centers on evidence-based medicine, and I focus on simplifying scientific research and sharing the most authentic, accurate health and wellness information.
I believe that we can achieve significant improvements in health and prevent disease by empowering people and providing personalized, holistic approaches to their care.
I am passionate about rigorous medical research, developing better patient management methods, and making complex science easy to understand.
What do health and well-being mean to you?
To me, health and well-being are rooted in knowledge, self-awareness, and leading an active, non-sedentary life.
I see health as understanding my body’s systems and discovering the best ways to care for and support them every day.
I believe true well-being is a balanced state, emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. Maintaining health requires ongoing attention.
That is why I engage mindfully with my inner self and work to empower my mind and soul so I can better support my body and its many functions.
What are your hobbies, or what excites or entertains you?
Outside my professional work, I enjoy creating engaging health and wellness content for people from different backgrounds.
To keep my mind, body, and spirit balanced, I regularly exercise at home on my fitness mat. I also love reading literature in English, Urdu, and Hindi.
Exploring different perspectives through reading and writing brings me both joy and inspiration.
What are the top three books that affected your life?
1. Guyton and Hall’s Medical Physiology,
2. Gray’s Anatomy, and
3. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
These books have a special place in my heart because they taught me robust ways for deep clinical reasoning and helped me understand the intricacies of the human body’s complex structure, immune mechanisms, and diseases.
Why do you write on Medium?
Without Medium, I couldn’t have gained access to so many wonderful people with high intellect and the ability to understand, interpret, and contribute to the ever-growing sea of scientific knowledge.
This is the platform where I got the right opportunities and connected with the audience I was looking for over a decade.
Medium allowed me to share my healthcare knowledge, research outcomes, and practical insights with multidisciplinary clinicians, researchers, scientists, thinkers, and innovators.
Do you write on other platforms like Substack? If so, how do you find them?
Yes, I write educational content on health and wellness for other platforms, such as Substack, LinkedIn, HubPages Network Sites, and Facebook.
I also post my content and videos through my YouTube channel.
I do love these spaces since they have a vast subscriber base, and they facilitate direct engagement of the content creators with the audiences.
What are your values as a writer?
I value empathy, clarity, and integrity in the writing process.
When I develop a health/wellness article, I take extra care to address the health issues using scientific evidence while maintaining simplicity in language.
When I write complex research papers, plain language summaries, or any informative article for my readers, the aim is to empower them and help them engage in meaningful health and wellness-related conversations.
The experiences my audiences share and the inputs they provide help me to ideate and generate new insights for future scientific research and evidence-based studies.
How do you connect with your readers?
I actively engage with readers on each of the platforms where I post my content. I encourage them to share their inputs, feedback, and experiences, and make every effort to address their health/wellness-related questions, concerns, or claims.
I make sure to provide evidence-based responses and take their insights as new leads for further analyses. I take care to provide a valid scientific rationale with each of my responses.
These meaningful and engaging discussions with my readers help expand scientific vision. Together, we make sure to hit hard the faux science that some of the top pharma giants use to mislead consumers for their commercial objectives.
Why did you join ILLUMINATION, and how do you find it so far?
Thank you for building this platform. I found ILLUMINATION a credible space that accepts regular stories but also scholarly and scientific articles with high validity and reliability from esteemed professionals, offering the latest healthcare knowledge for its audiences.
With the values of diversity and inclusion, ILLUMINATION supports human-centered writing and values human rights and dignity while making sure that the hardworking and highly authentic medical researchers get a robust platform to disseminate the most authentic scientific messages.
I have seen how the high-impact medical journals leverage their industry connections to selectively accept scientific articles elaborating on clinical trials or real-world studies conducted by a few renowned CROs or pharma companies.
ILLUMINATION earnestly overcomes these biases and provides ample space to authentic science in the best interest of humanity. These aims, objectives, and interventions by ILLUMINATION thoroughly align with my scientific vision, which is why I joined ILLUMINATION and continue to embrace the platform.
Who are some writers you follow on ILLUMINATION?
Apart from you, I follow several great writers like Dr. Bronce Rice, Dr Mike Broadly, Fildy Bejaoui, and many more on ILLUMINATION based on their out-of-the-box insights on health and wellness, practical philosophy, psychology, and mental health.
What are your top five stories that you want to share with your audience and why?
- My article on gut health and aging, published in Spirituality & Health, addresses the evidence-based approaches for the elderly to maintain their gut function.
- A thoughtful and well-researched review on virtual medical training during COVID-19 on YouMeMindBody, underscoring the changing trends in health education during the pandemic.
- A reflection on a pediatric neuroimaging real-world study posted on Substack, demonstrating higher cognitive ability in females than males at birth.
- A science-backed article on the management of fatty liver disease on ILLUMINATION, exposing the ground reality of fatty liver/metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease.
- An interactive article on the mental health improvement approaches in the workplace on HubPages, providing actionable advice on mental health issues.
What are the success factors for you as a writer?
Collaboration, engagement, consistency, feedback, self-reflection, contemplation, extensive research, reading insightful books and articles, brainstorming (ideation), content strategy development, and relentless writing are the success factors for me as a writer.
What do you recommend to new writers?
I recommend that new writers explore, self-reflect, and understand their expertise before selecting the appropriate niche for writing.
Start writing without worrying about the outcomes, and make sure whatever you bring to the paper should be backed by solid evidence or a concrete rationale.
Read the content of authentic writers across credible platforms, collaborate with experienced mentors, and always remain open to constructive feedback.
As your audience increases, keep yourself humble, engage with your readers, take their input, and address their concerns. Face the critique of your work with confidence and use it to innovate and explore areas for improvement.
Keep moving, stop worrying about perfection, and instead aspire to wisdom (derived from deep research, extensive study, brainstorming, and innovation).
What are your plans as a writer or as a professional?
This is the beginning. With over 10 years of groundwork, I am ready to brainstorm, ideate, and participate in a range of research projects in the ever-evolving healthcare landscape.
I look forward to collaborating with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and bridging the gap between theoretical insights and practical knowledge.
My immediate aim is to expand my readership across platforms such as Medium, Substack, and LinkedIn and enhance my contributions to real and truthful science, while distancing myself from the commercial model of science that solely focuses on expanding earnings at the cost of misleading innocent people through deceptive ads.
I am also fond of developing and promoting dialogues on public health with thought leaders and genuine healthcare experts.
I am confident that consistent and meaningful engagements with health experts, patients, non-medical professionals, and healthy people across the globe will help me uncover actual science and protect humanity from those powerful predators surviving on the relentless promotion of pseudoscience.
Many thanks to Dr Rahman for allocating his precious time to inform us and give us a glimpse into his exciting life. You can connect with him on Substack, LinkedIn, and the Illumination Slack workspace for collaboration. You can learn more about him from his landing page on my website.
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The more successful people you meet, the more successful you can become, from my experience. The more you give without expecting, the more you receive, as my grandparents taught me.
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