Sheena Bhageerutty
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Interests: Sheena thoroughly enjoys travelling and learning about new cultures. Sheena spends her free time coaching tennis to children and baking.
Personal Statement: Sheena works at Action on Sugar and Salt. She has achieved a First-Class Honours in Nutrition & Health and completed an MSc. in Nutrition for Global Health at LSHTM.
Shaan Sahota
Institution: Imperial College Healthcare Trust
Interests: Women’s health, Cultural relativism, Behavioural change and obesity medicine.
Personal Statement: I am a doctor and playwright, with a background in domestic violence advocacy (specialising in BAME survivors, and women with insecure immigration status).
Rebecca Musson
Institution: St Mary’s Hospital, London
Interests: Palliative Care, Intensive Care, Community Engagement, Medical Education.
Personal Statement: I am a junior doctor working in Intensive Care in London. I am excited to collaborate with SAHF to facilitate dialogue between healthcare professionals and the community on key issues such as palliative care.
Hina Shahid
Institution: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust
Interests: Cardiology, Medical Education, Cross-Cultural Health, Medical Humanities & Mental Health.
Personal Statement: Hina studied Medical Humanities at King’s College London, where her research focused on the portrayal of mental health in Indian cinema. She trained at Warwick Medical School and is currently a Medical Clinical Education Fellow.
Hannah Jethwa
Institution: NHS
Interests: Patient education, musculoskeletal disease, autoimmune disease.
Personal Statement: Hannah Jethwa is a doctor specialising in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine. She has a special interest in patient education and is a strong believer that this is a key factor in improving disease outcomes.
Mayur Murali
Institution: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Interests: Education and training, leadership, global health, widening access, running, cricket.
Personal Statement: I am an academic anaesthetist and intensivist working in London. I am passionate about tackling inequality in healthcare, improving engagement with services and widening access.
Iman Ahmedani
Institution: St Mary’s Hospital
Interests: I love creative writing, spoken word, editing videos, speaking Spanish and tap dancing. I would like to learn Arabic next!
Personal Statement: I am a junior doctor with a passion for global and mental health. I would like to train as a generalist and to spend time working in the humanitarian sector.
Huma Khan
Institution: Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Interests: Forensic, global and conflict psychiatry, specifically, impacts on marginalised communities. Wider interests include inequalities within education and health specific to intersections of race, gender and social class.
Personal Statement: I am a Psychiatry trainee with a background in Pharmacology and my alma mater includes the Universities of Bradford, Aberdeen and Oxford. I like to write and have contributed to various OpEds as well as writing poetry and fiction.
Lavandan Jegatheeswaran
Institution: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Interests: Aside from medicine, I am a travel/portrait photographer. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lavandan.photography/
I am also a keen musician, playing the Carnatic Violin in local temple festivals.
Personal Statement: I am a junior doctor working in the North West London deanery. I am interested in addressing and tackling common health myths and taboos residing within the South Asian diaspora in the UK.
Catherine Seymour
Institution: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Interests: I am passionate about medical education and palliative care. In my spare time, I relax by painting and knitting.
Personal Statement: I am a junior doctor currently working in Northwick Park Hospital. Working in North West London during the pandemic has motivated me to address health inequalities, particularly in end-of-life settings.
Aneesha Chauhan
Institution: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Personal Statement: Having studied medicine at Oxford and health policy at Imperial College London, I am now an internal medicine trainee in London. In order to tackle the widening health gap, I hope to work with SAHF to develop projects that guide evidence-based health policy on both a local and national level.