Shireen Kassam
Shireen Kassam | |
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| Born | 1975 |
| Occupation | 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
[edit]Kassam qualified as a doctor in 2000.[1] She obtained a PhD at the University of London in 2011 on the role of selenium in sensitizing cancer cells to chemotherapy.[1] She became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2008.[2]
Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College Hospital.[3][4] 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.[5][6]
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.[1] Kassam is on the Research Advisory Committee of the Vegan Society.[4] She has co-authored Eating Plant-Based and the textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, published by Hammersmith Books in 2022.[7] She is a council member of True Health Initiative.[8]
In 2022, Kassam argued that the National Health Service would save billions if more people embraced a plant-based diet.[9] She has written for Reader's Digest and The Independent.[10][11]
Personal life
[edit]Kassam has followed a whole food plant-based diet since 2013.[3] She was a speaker at VegfestUK 2022.[12]
Selected publications
[edit]- Eating Plant-Based: Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions (with Zahra Kassam, 2022)
- Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice (with Zahra Kassam and Lisa Simon, 2022)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "About Us". Plant-Based Health Professionals. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
- ^ "Shireen Kassam, MD". Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
- ^ a b "Professor Shireen Kassam". Unviversity of Winchester. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
- ^ a b "Dr Shireen Kassam, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath, dipIBLM". Vegan Society. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
- ^ "Lifestyle medicine for improving health & wellbeing – a presentation by Dr Shireen Kassam". MDS UK Patient Support Group. 2023. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
- ^ "Dr Shireen Kassam". Open Access Government. 2023. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Dr Shireen Kassam". Hammersmith Books. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023.
- ^ "Shireen Kassam". True Health Initiative. 2023. Archived from the original on October 1, 2023.
- ^ "NHS Doctor Claims Vegan Diet Will Save UK's Embattled Health Sector £30 Billion". Green Queen. 2022. Archived from the original on March 27, 2023.
- ^ "Dr Shireen Kassam". Reader's Digest.
- ^ "Dr Shireen Kassam". The Independent.
- ^ "Dr Shireen Kassam MBBS, PHD, FRCPATH, DIPIBLM". Veg Fest. 2022. Archived from the original on December 6, 2023.
- 1975 births
- 21st-century British medical doctors
- 21st-century British non-fiction writers
- Academics of the University of Winchester
- Alumni of the University of London
- British health and wellness writers
- British haematologists
- British veganism activists
- Living people
- Members of the Royal College of Physicians
- Plant-based diet advocates
- The Independent people