Dr. KHALID MAHMUD (M.D., F.A.C.P.)

Forum Member

Khalid Mahmud is a graduate of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.  He received his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Hematology at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.  He is Board Certified in the disciplines of Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Oncology, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.  Dr. Mahmud served as the Chief of Medicine and Medical Director of Oncology at North Memorial Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN.

He was the founder of Medisys, a high technology home care company in Minneapolis, where he developed many new guidelines for the management of acute and sub-acute problems in the home and pioneered the idea of home chemotherapy.  At Medisys he was also instrumental in providing a head office for the American Academy of Home Care Physicians in its infancy.  He is a Director Emeritus for that organization and also serves on the Board of Directors of the “Little Hospice” in Edina, Minnesota.  Dr. Mahmud is a 1988 recipient of the Minnesota Governors Asian Pacific Minnesotan Award in the field of health.  He received a five-page tribute in Caring Magazine for his work in high technology home care.

 Dr. Mahmud is the founder, former Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Board, of American TeleCare, Inc., a Minnesota based Home Telemedicine company.  In this capacity he pioneered the idea of home telemedicine in 1993, and was the first to author a clinical article on this topic in a peer review journal.  Dr. Mahmud has published a number of articles and is a nationally recognized speaker on home care and home telemedicine. Currently, he is a senior medical advisor to American TeleCare, Inc.

 Dr. Mahmud served the American Telemedicine Association as the Chairperson of its TeleHomecare Task Force from 1997 to 1999 and as a member of its Board of Directors from 1999 to 2001.