Dr Amir Sam

Dr Amir Sam received his BSc with First Class Honours in 2000 and his MBBS in 2003 from UCL with the University of London Gold Medal Proxime Accessit award. He completed his postgraduate training in Oxford and London, during which he received several teaching awards. He gained membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2006 and started working as an Academic Clinical Fellow in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Hammersmith Hospital. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2008.

He earned his PhD in Neuroendocrinology from Imperial College London in 2011, before being appointed as an Academic Clinical Lecturer. His research interest is in the role gut hormones in glucose homeostasis and insulin resistance. He is a co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine, Rapid Medicine and Lecture Notes Endocrinology and Diabetes. He is currently working as a Consultant Physician at the Hammersmith hospital and is the Director of Clinical studies at the Charing Cross hospital.

Prof John Chambers

Prof John Chambers Qualified  in 1991 at Oxford University. His postgraduate training was in Cardiology & Medicine at Hammersmith, St Mary’s and Royal Brompton and he has a PhD in cardiovascular medicine at Imperial College. Prof Chambers has  many years experience in postgraduate teaching including BBR 

and Paces MRCP courses, as well as Imperial College DIM, DIC and BSc courses.

 

His research focuses on the investigation of genetic and environmental mechanisms underlying obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related phenotypic disturbances in Indian Asians. In the last ten years he has helped to establish the London Life Sciences Population (LOLIPOP) study, one of the largest cohort studies of Indian Asians world-wide. Research efforts have capitalised on this unique population cohort, to provide new insight into the mechanisms underlying obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other human phenotypes.

 

Prof Karim Meeran

Professor Karim Meeran qualified from the Royal Free Hospital in 1988 and trained in Endocrinology at Hammersmith Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He is Professor of Endocrinology, Deputy Director of Medical Education and Lead Clinician for Endocrinology. He has established a strong clinical and educational link with the Abu Dhabi Imperial College London Diabetes Centre. He has an international reputation for the treatment of endocrine disease and has published extensively in this field. Professor Meeran’s clinical focus is in all aspects of endocrinology and diabetes including thyroid, adrenal, prolactin and pituitary diseases, parathyroid, calcium, vitamin D , bone metabolism and neuroendocrine tumours. He is Professor of Endocrinology at Imperial College London.