Sam Ahmedzai
Professor Sam H Ahmedzai is a British palliative care specialist and an Honorary Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine.
Ahmedzai studied medicine at the University of St Andrews and at the University of Manchester.
From 1994 until retirement in 2015, he was Chair and Head of the Academic Unit of Supportive Care at the University of Sheffield.
He was also the Harry H Horvitz Visiting Professor at the Cleveland Clinic and Spinoza Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2010.
He served as a clinical expert
adviser for NICE NHS Evidence; as a member of the council of the British Pain Society; as a member of the Commission on Assisted Dying, and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Target Ovarian Cancer.
He is editor of the journal Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care and, from 2004, was editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Press book series on supportive care.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
He is the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network National Specialty lead for Community-based, Supportive and Palliative Care Research.
