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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. She is a council member of True Health Initiative.

In 2022, Kassam argued that the National Health Service would save billions if more people embraced a plant-based diet. She has written for Reader's Digest and The Independent.

Personal life

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

Selected publications

• 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

1. ^ "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. ^ "Professor Shireen Kassam". Unviversity of Winchester. 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
4. ^ "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.
10. "Dr Shireen Kassam". Reader's Digest.
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.

• 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