Dr. Khamis is currently a Professor of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology at Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is in the academia for over 28 years and has published 83 articles in scientific journals of international repute. He published his first book of Discrete Mathematics (2006).

Dr. Khamis Obtained his B.sc on Statistics and computer Sciences from Khartoum University, Msc and DEA of Biostatistics from Paris XI University and his PhD of Biostatistics and genetic epidemiology through Sandwitch Program from University of  Mediterranean AIX, Marseille and Gazira University.

Dr. Khamis worked as Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Department of Family and Community medicine at the University of Dammam (Formal King Faisal University) in KSA between 2009-2014. He had served the same position of Biostatistics and Genetic epidemiology at the Department of Community Medicine at University of Khartoum, Sudan (2003-2009). He is a member of the Ethical Research Committee at HBMCDM. As a consultant with WHO, he travels extensively on scientific missions and conducts research projects in the most disturbed regions of Africa and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Khamis supervised a number of theses at the MScs and PhD levels at different universities where he served. In 2008, he received the Ministry of Higher Education Distinguished Award for his scientific contribution to academic research in Sudan. Interest of Dr. Khamis is Biostatistics, epidemiology, genetic epidemiology and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

He fluently speaks, reads and writes Arabic, English and French.