Shireen is a Consultant Haematologist at King’s College Hospital, London, specialising in the care of people with lymphoma and other haematological cancers. Additionally, Shireen is the founder and director of the non-profit organisation Plant-Based Health Professionals, UK, whose mission is to provide evidence-based education to health professionals and the general public on plant-based nutrition and other lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.
Shireen is also a visiting Professor at Winchester University, where she runs the UK's first University-based course on plant-based nutrition. One busy lady!
In this conversation we discuss:
• Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, their mission and advocacy work
• The University of Winchester Nutrition Course for health professionals, which she spearheaded
• The latest nutrition guidelines from the American Cancer Society
• Socioeconomic determinants of health
• Food Justice Issues
• Shireen’s brilliant weekly plant-based nutrition news on Medium and social media.
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