Alumni and guests are invited to join the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Toronto for a TEDx style talk with Cambridge Cardiologist Dr Rameen Shakur.

Dr Shakur will present the latest research and advances in Personalised Medicine for Cardiology where a patient's genetic make-up is used to inform the most effective treatment options. He will also present on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and will address ethical questions these advances raise.

Dr Shakur Biography:

Dr Rameen Shakur is a clinician scientist in Cardiology and the Wellcome trust clinical fellow for the University of Cambridge. Dr Shakur trained at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh University medical schools for his clinical training, finally practising in Cardiology in London, UK. He completed his PhD in modelling inherited cardiac diseases at the Wellcome Trust Sanger centre and the Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He was also Cambridge BRC fellow at George Church's lab at Harvard medical School and a previous Churchill fellow at Harvard University and Mayo medical school, Rochester and Peter Kirk fellow at ehe Karolinska institute Sweden. He is the author of 4 text books and numerous papers.