Wikipedia:Amir Sam

Amir Sam (9 July 1978) is a physician, musician and composer of music. He is the author of several textbooks in medicine, endocrinology as well as research articles. Sam is currently the Head of Imperial College School of Medicine and Director of Imperial's Charing Cross campus. Sam is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. He is a global figure in the field of medical education research.

Life and education
Amir Sam was born on July 9, 1978. He started learning Setar at the age of eight, with Behnam Vadani at the Center for Music Preservation and Dissemination. At the age of 12, his first poems were published in the Adabestan monthly and the Ettela'at newspaper, edited by his father. At the age of fifteen, he emigrated to Britain with his family and while studying medicine, he taught Setar and research in the field of Persian traditional music.

He graduated from University College London in 2003 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. He then went on to postgraduate medical training in Oxford University. Sam holds a PhD in Neuroendocrinology, completed as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow, from Imperial College London. He is currently a consultant physician and endocrinologist at Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals.

He has taught several scientific and clinical courses at Imperial College London since 2006; He has managed several medical examination projects at the Medical Schools Council and the General Medical Council in the UK.

Musical works
Sam formed the "Sayeh" band in 2005 and performed several concerts with other artists in Paris and London.

Among his musical works are the albums "Zard Sorkh Arghavany", Ocean of the Heart", "The song of silence" and "I know you will be with me".

Medical articles
Sam has published numerous research articles and several volumes of medical books.

Including:


 * Rapid Medicine
 * Rapid Differential Diagnosis
 * Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine
 * Lecture notes: Endocrinology and Diabetes
 * Recent Advances in Endocrinology and diabetes-1