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Nilesh Samani
British cardiologist
Sir Nilesh Jayantilal Samani,DL, FRCP, FMedSci (born 19 July 1956) is a British physician who is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, and a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester.
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He was Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation from 2016 to 2023.[1][2][3]
Life and career
Samani is of ethnic Indian origin and was born in Nanyuki, Kenya.
His mother tongue is Gujarati. He was educated at the Lenana School in Nairobi, and once his family moved to the UK in 1971, at Charles Keene College in Leicester. He then studied at the University of Leicester, where he obtained a First Class HonoursBSc degree in Medical Sciences in 1978.[1] followed by an MBChB medical degree with distinction in 1981.[4] Serving as a house officer from 1981 and then as a senior house officer from 1982 to 1985, Samani then became an MRC Clinical Trainee Fellow unt