Shireen Kassam
British hematologist
Shireen Amirali Kassam (born 1975) is a British haematologist, lifestyle medicine physician and promoter of whole food plant-based nutrition. She is the founder of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK.
Biography
Kassam qualified as a doctor in 2000. She obtained a PhD at the University of London in 2011 on the role of selenium in sensitizing cancer cells to chemotherapy. She became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2008.
Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College Hospital. She is a visiting professor at University of Winchester where she developed the UK's first university course on plant-based nutrition. She is a certified lifestyle medicine physician.
Kassam founded Plant-Based Health Professionals UK in 2018, a non-profit organization that provides education on whole food plant-based nutrition for prevention and management of chronic disease. Kassam is on the Research Advisory Committee of the Vegan Society. She has co-authored Eating Plant-Based and the textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, published by Hammersmith Books in 2022.
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