Dr. Behram Ali Khan is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist and Asst Professor of Medicine. He received his training in USA and is American Board Certified in Nephrology and Internal Medicine, with Singapore Medical Council accreditation in Renal Medicine. He has over 25 years of experience in the medical field and has served in various leadership positions. Dr Behram continues his medical practice at both public and private sectors in Singapore and his Teaching/Research activities at National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS.
Dr. Behram has a keen interest in Chronic Disease management, Kidney Diseases, Hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity, Longevity Medicine, Internal Medicine disorders, Dialysis and Acute Kidney injuries. He also performs Interventional Nephrology procedures.
His specialty interests are medical disorders, kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, dialysis, interventional nephrology procedures, chronic disease management, obesity and longevity medicine.
Dr Pary obtained his undergraduate medical education from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He underwent training in General Internal Medicine (Basic Training) followed by Nephrology / Renal Medicine (Advance Training) at NUS.
He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Program scholarship by the Ministry of Health, Singapore to undergo further specialization in Kidney Transplantation. He trained under Dr David Landsberg and Dr Paul Keown in Vancouver from 1999 to 2000. The training program and centre was recognized and certified by the American Society of Transplantation for those intending to be specialists in Kidney Transplantation. There he immersed himself completely in the understanding of the total management of kidney transplant donors and recipients.
He returned to Singapore in 2000 has been instrumental in performing various complex transplantations including cross match positive kidney transplantation, high medical risk kidney recipients, etc. He was also very closely involved in the first Asian bone marrow kidney transplantation that resulted in a successful kidney transplantation without any long term immunosuppression.
Over the years he has successfully managed many complex post-transplant problems like hepatitis C, lymphoproliferative disorder, recurrent diseases, etc. Due to his immense experience in renal issues he was called on to provide almost total support to the management of renal problems for potential liver transplant candidates before and after liver transplantation.
With his strong knowledge, understanding and experience in the use of immune manipulating medications, Dr Pary has also managed various types of immune mediated kidney diseases including complex lupus nephritis, membranous nephritis, FSGS, IgA nephropathy etc.
With his knowledge and skills in cutting edge therapies he has helped to salvage and stabilize the renal condition of many such patients. Dr Pary has also been strongly involved in helping charity-based dialysis programmes. He has been the Nephrologist in charge of the People’s Dialysis Centre (a charity based hemodialysis program managed by the Khoo Foundation) since 2003. At this centre he has helped managed many medically complicated and elderly patients on haemodialysis. He has also been actively involved in the management of haemodialysis patients at one of the centres operated by another charity-based dialysis program managed by the Kidney Dialysis Foundation. During his tenure at the National University Hospital, Dr Pary was actively involved in providing an Evidence Based approach to the practice of medicine. He was an active member of the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) subcommittee of the hospital and was involved in conducting training for local and regional doctors in EBM. He has also provided advice on various prescription medication related matters for the hospital and held the position of the Vice Chairman of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
Dr Francisco graduated with honours from the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, Mexico. He obtained his MRCP (UK) in London, United Kingdom, where he did his senior medical officer postings at the Royal London Hospital and Barts Hospital. He specialised in Nephrology at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), where he acquired 10 years of experience as a Nephrologist. He was also a visiting consultant at the National Kidney Foundation in Singapore during 2018.
Dr Francisco’s main clinical interests are the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of several kidney disorders including glomerulonephritis and lupus nephritis, and of chronic kidney disease due to diabetes, hypertension, polycystic kidney disease and other rarer conditions of the kidneys. He also subspecialised in kidney transplantation at the SGH and he is an eager advocate of kidney transplantation and live donation for the management of kidney failure. He is also proficient in the management of patients on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, as well as in the care of those patients opting for no dialysis or delaying the initiation of dialysis.
Holistic patient care is crucial in Dr Francisco’s clinical practice and he has partnered with different specialists and other corporations in Singapore, and he is providing in-office clinic services and home services in Singapore for Singaporeans and Expats, as well as International patients visiting Singapore. Dr Francisco has incorporated telemedicine to the range of services he provides (available only within Singapore). Dr. Francisco speaks English and Spanish. His dietitian, Ms Hui Xin, helps him translating into Chinese and Malay.
Dr Francisco was also trained as an Immunologist at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Prof Sir Robert Lechler. He was awarded a distinction for his MSc in thymopoiesis and had straight-pass during his PhD thesis viva on “Transplantation Tolerance and Immunoregulation”. Dr Francisco was actively involved in many research projects at the SGH, where he held few institutional research grants for the study of the immune mechanisms behind kidney transplant rejection, glomerulonephritis and lupus nephritis.