Zahra Kassam

Dr Zahra Kassam MB BS, FRCPC, MSc, DipABLM, is a Radiation Oncologist at the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, Canada, specialising in the treatment of breast and gastrointestinal malignancies. She is a certified Lifestyle Medicine physician with the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and counsels her patients on dietary and lifestyle interventions to optimise outcomes after a cancer diagnosis. In 2019, she co-founded Plant-Based Canada, a non-profit organisation with the mission to promote plant-based whole food nutrition that is healthy and sustainable and which supports the well-being of the planet and all its inhabitants.