Shireen Amirali Kassam was born on 1975 and is a British haematologist, lifestyle medicine physician and promoter of whole food plant-based nutrition.
12 Facts About Shireen Kassam
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Shireen Kassam is the founder of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK.
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Shireen Kassam obtained a PhD at the University of London in 2011 on the role of selenium in sensitizing cancer cells to chemotherapy.
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Shireen Kassam became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2008.
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Shireen Kassam is a visiting professor at University of Winchester where she developed the UK's first university course on plant-based nutrition.
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Shireen 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.
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Shireen Kassam is on the Research Advisory Committee of the Vegan Society.
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Shireen Kassam 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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Shireen Kassam is a council member of True Health Initiative.
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In 2022, Shireen Kassam argued that the National Health Service would save billions if more people embraced a plant-based diet.
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Shireen Kassam has written for Reader's Digest and The Independent.
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Shireen Kassam has followed a whole food plant-based diet since 2013.