Shireen Kassam Explained

Shireen Kassam
Birth Date: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

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

Kassam has followed a whole food plant-based diet since 2013.[3] She was a speaker at VegfestUK 2022.[12]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024. About Us. Plant-Based Health Professionals. en-GB. May 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240513220345/https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/about-us. live.
  2. Web site: 2024. Shireen Kassam, MD. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. en-GB. May 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240513193125/https://www.pcrm.org/findadoctor/shireen-kassam-md. live.
  3. Web site: 2024. Professor Shireen Kassam. Unviversity of Winchester. en-GB. May 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240513214908/https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/kassam.php. live.
  4. Web site: 2024. Dr Shireen Kassam, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath, dipIBLM. Vegan Society. en-GB. May 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240513210244/https://www.vegansociety.com/about-us/research/who-we-are/dr-shireen-kassam. live.
  5. Web site: 2023. Lifestyle medicine for improving health & wellbeing – a presentation by Dr Shireen Kassam. MDS UK Patient Support Group. en-GB. May 13, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240513210950/https://mdspatientsupport.org.uk/lifestyle-medicine-dr-shireen-kassam/. live.
  6. Web site: 2023. Dr Shireen Kassam. Open Access Government. en-GB. June 10, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230610064657/https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/contributor_profile/dr-shireen-kassam-mbbs-frcpath-phd-dipiblm-plant-based-health-professionals/. live.
  7. Web site: Dr Shireen Kassam. Hammersmith Books. en-GB. December 5, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231205220608/https://www.hammersmithbooks.co.uk/artist/dr-shireen-kassam/. live.
  8. Web site: 2023. Shireen Kassam. True Health Initiative. en-GB. October 1, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231001124247/https://www.truehealthinitiative.org/council_member/shireen-kassam/shireen-kassam-2/. live.
  9. Web site: 2022. NHS Doctor Claims Vegan Diet Will Save UK's Embattled Health Sector £30 Billion. Green Queen. en-GB. March 27, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230327131459/https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/vegan-diet-uk-health-nhs/. live.
  10. Web site: Dr Shireen Kassam. Reader's Digest. en-GB.
  11. Web site: Dr Shireen Kassam. The Independent. en-GB.
  12. Web site: 2022. Dr Shireen Kassam MBBS, PHD, FRCPATH, DIPIBLM. Veg Fest. en-GB. December 6, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231206215650/https://london.vegfest.co.uk/speakers/dr-shireen-kassam-mbbs-phd-frcpath-dipiblm/. live.

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