Milan Khara

Dr. Milan Khara is a clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, a physician lead at the St. Paul’s Hospital Smoking Cessation Clinic and a Centre for Lung Health researcher. A UK trained physician, Dr. Khara joined Vancouver Coastal Health in 2003 having previously worked as an addiction medicine consultant at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Certified in 2006 by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, his current work primarily focuses on treating tobacco use disorder but increasingly extends into other areas of tobacco control.

Dr. Khara’s research efforts have mainly focused on “hard-to-treat” populations and have been published in scientific medical journals. He has also been actively involved in many areas of tobacco control advocacy including providing expert testimony in a number of legal challenges to smoke-free legislation. Dr. Khara has been involved in training health care professionals and students throughout Canada to optimally treat tobacco use disorder.