Dr Azam Saied, MPhys MBCHB MRCGP MSc
Academic Advanced GP Fellow
Profile
I am an academic GP with a special interest in genomic medicine.
I took a fairly unconventional path into medicine starting with an undergraduate master’s degree in physics before working as a financial consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London for five years. I co-founded a start-up called Language-JAM which I left after we received incubator funding. I then started graduate medicine at Warwick Medical School.
I undertook academic foundation training in Stoke-on-Trent where I used multi-level modelling to study drivers of systemic inflammation in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. I also worked on a machine learning project to identify bone tumours on plain film x-rays.
I was an academic clinical fellow at UCL during my GP training in London where our research focus was genetic epidemiology and epigenetic epidemiology. During this time I did an HEE funded master’s in genomic medicine at Imperial collage. As part of this MSc I spent a year working in the Brain Science Unit with the UKDRI on computational biology project.
I am interested in medical education and health inequalities. I am education lead of the RCGP Junior International Committee.
Research
Research Interests:
I am interested in genomic medicine, epigenetics, and specifically clinical applications of DNA methylation data in biogerontology, healthy aging, and cancer.
I am also interested and have experience in genetic epidemiology, epigenetic epidemiology, drivers of health inequalities, medical leadership and education.