Amir Sam MBBS, PhD, FRCP, SFHEA

Professor Amir Sam is a consultant endocrinologist at Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals. He is the Head of the Imperial College School of Medicine and Director of the Charing Cross Campus at Imperial College London.

He graduated from University College London (UCL) with prizes and distinctions in all pre-clinical and clinical subjects. During his undergraduate training, he received a scholarship to study endocrinology at Harvard Medical School. His postgraduate medical training was in Oxford and London. He completed his PhD in neuroendocrinology as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College London.

He has received the Imperial College President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Teacher/Trainer of the Year Award from Health Education North West London. Professor Sam has authored several textbooks in Medicine and Endocrinology as well as original research articles. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.