Zahra Kassam M.D.

https://www.plantbasedcanada.org/

Dr. Zahra Kassam is a radiation oncologist at the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, and an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. Zahra received her medical degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in 1995 and completed her specialist training in Clinical Oncology in 2006 in the UK. She undertook 3 years of additional clinical and research fellowship training in Radiation Oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, with a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. Her areas of clinical practice are in gastrointestinal and breast cancers. She is the research lead in the Radiation Medicine Program at her cancer centre. Zahra is a certified Lifestyle Medicine physician with the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.  In 2019, she co- founded Plant-Based Canada with the mission to promote plant-based whole food nutrition that is sustainable and the healthiest possible, and which also promotes the well-being of the planet and all its inhabitants. Her first book, co-authored with her sister Shireen, was published in January 2022 and is called Eating Plant-Based, Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions. Together with Shireen and Lisa Simon RD, Zahra is co-editor of the textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, released in 2022.