Profile
Usman Bashir
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My CV
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Education:
I obtained most of my early education from Aitchison College (Pakistan), getting straight A’s in GCSE and A-level(eq). I studied medicine at King Edward Medical College, top medical school in the country. After several years working in hospitals, I have decided to resume studies, and am now doing an MD in cancer research (similar to PhD, but for doctors) at King’s College London
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Qualifications:
MBBS (2002), Fellow of Royal College of Radiologists (2011)
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Work History:
Loads of places, as a cancer radiologist ( a kind of doctor who loooks at XRay, Ultrasound, CT, MRI in cancer patients). In UK, I have worked at Royal Marsden Cancer hospital, King’s College hospital, and now at St. Thomas’ hospital. I also dabble in computer software development.
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Current Job:
I am doing research on Cancer. Specifically we use a new type of scanner ‘PET/MRI’ which combines electromagnetic waves and positrons. We hope to detect cancer before it spreads everywhere
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Well my work is very mentally intensive. The imaging part only happens once in a week of so, when we have patients. Most of the rest of the time, I am learning relevant mathematics and physics, reading papers about PET/MRI and on different ways to analyse images, and writing about them. I have worked on different cancers including tongue cancer, breast cancer, and others. You can find some of my work if you search my name on a website called ‘pubmed.gov’
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My Typical Day:
Read read read .. then write write write!
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This is pretty much what I do. I read about current research which has been down world-over on PET/MRI and try to think of ways we can contribute to it in our centre. I then write papers on what I have read and get them published in journals.
On occasion, I go down to the actual PET/MRI scanner, after a patient has been scanned, and then I look at the pictures and see if I can pick small cancers hidden away in different parts of the body any better than before.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I would bring cancer imaging awareness to school children
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Intelligent, passionate, determined
Were you ever in trouble at school?
When was i not in trouble!
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Eminem
What's your favourite food?
Beef with green chillies and gravy served up with fried rice – yum
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Of course lots of money, a big castle like the windsor castle, and wingsuit flying!
Tell us a joke.
There’s two fish in a tank, and one says ”How do you drive this thing?”
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