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. She has been the PI in a recent validation study of breast cancer biomarkers using point of care molecular techniques and a co-investigator in an University of Oxford Grand Challenges Gates funded project for the development of a mobile application the aim of which is to assist patients locate high quality laboratory services in their vicinity. Dr. Sayed has also been involved in several funded projects aimed at improving and standardizing the practice of pathology in East Central and Southern Africa.

Among her professional affiliations, Dr. Sayed is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), an adjunct member of Adjunct Member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) a fellow of ISN and a fellow of COPECSA.