Shireen Kassam

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Shireen Kassam
Born1975
OccupationHematologist

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.

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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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Us". Plant-Based Health Professionals. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Shireen Kassam, MD". Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Shireen Kassam". Unviversity of Winchester. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Dr Shireen Kassam, MBBS, PhD, FRCPath, dipIBLM". Vegan Society. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ "Dr Shireen Kassam". Open Access Government. 2023. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Dr Shireen Kassam". Hammersmith Books. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Shireen Kassam". True Health Initiative. 2023. Archived from the original on October 1, 2023.
  9. ↑ "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.
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  11. ↑ "Dr Shireen Kassam". The Independent.
  12. ↑ "Dr Shireen Kassam MBBS, PHD, FRCPATH, DIPIBLM". Veg Fest. 2022. Archived from the original on December 6, 2023.
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