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Plant-Based Health Professionals UK
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 Resea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haematologist
Hematology ( spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, bone marrow, platelets, blood vessels, spleen, and the mechanism of coagulation. Such diseases might include hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, blood clots (thrombus), other bleeding disorders, and blood cancers such as leukemia, multiple myeloma, and lymphoma. The laboratory analysis of blood is frequently performed by a medical technologist or medical laboratory scientist. Specialization Physicians specialized in hematology are known as hematologists or haematologists. Their routine work mainly includes the care and treatment of patients with hematological diseases, although some may also work at the hematology laboratory viewing blood films and bone marrow slid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |