Dr. Karim Keshavjee is a Family Physician with a part-time practice and a full-time health informatics consultancy practice. He spent five years in the pharmaceutical industry managing clinical trials and managing an electronic drug utilization project. He was the Clinician-Project Director for the COMPETE series of research studies. The COMPETE research program studies the impact of e-health technologies on the management of patients with diabetes and vascular disease.

Dr. Keshavjee was the physician subject matter expert to Canada Health Infoway for the pan-Canadian electronic prescribing project (CeRx) and the inter-operable electronic health record (iEHR) project. He was also the physician subject matter expert for the EHR Blueprint 2015 project which updated the EHR architecture to accommodate the consumer health record and other recent innovations in e-health.

Dr. Keshavjee is an associate member of the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines, a think-tank and research institute which takes an interdisciplinary approach to use of medications in the community setting. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria and is vice-chair of the Advisory Board for the McMaster program in e-Health.

Since 1996, Dr. Keshavjee has conducted numerous continuing medical education accredited seminars attended by over 700 physicians from across North America. Topics include Best Practices in EMR selection, Best Practices in EMR implementation and Best Practices in Information Management in EMR. He has also co-authored several papers on best practices in electronic medical record implementation.

Dr. Keshavjee has done design work on several clinical decision support systems and has extensive experience in converting human readable guidelines into computable guidelines, especially the Canadian Diabetes Association guidelines.

Dr. Keshavjee completed his MBA at the Rotman School of Business in 2004 in technology commercialization, Dr. Keshavjee is an experienced primary care health informaticist who consults to a wide variety of organizations on change management, information management and chronic disease management in EMRs in primary care, including several Family Health Teams, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, a variety of EMR vendors and Canada Health Infoway. Dr. Keshavjee has received the CPHIMS certification.