Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Prof Shahin Sayed - Participant

Leveraging artificial intelligence/machine learning-based technology to overcome specialized training and technology barriers for the diagnosis and prognostication of colorectal cancer in Africa (MPI)

Shahin Sayed is a Consultant Histopathologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. She is the Secretary General of the College of Pathologists of East Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA), the Chair of the Board of Directors of African Strategies for Advancing Pathology (https://pathologyinafrica.org/) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics. She co-chairs the Kenya National Sample Handling guidelines and is a member of the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Cancer Control Program in the Ministry of Health in Kenya. Dr. Sayed earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.ChB) degree from University of Nairobi, Kenya; her Master of Medicine in Pathology degree (MMed Path) from University of Nairobi; a Fellowship in Pathology (FCPath-ECSA) from COPECSA and an International Society of Nephrology Fellowship certificate in Nephropathology from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr.Sayed's cancer research interest has been in oncopathology specifically in breast cancer and hematolymphoid malignancies in which she has several peer reviewed publications. Her current grant is studying the genomic landscape of breast cancer in Kenya.