Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Asif is a consultant cardiologist in London with director-level appointments in the UK’s National Health Service.
He studied medicine at Cambridge University and returned for a PhD in cardiovascular stem cell biology. Asif was a Medical Research Council visiting fellow at Yale.
Jude Venn
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Jude has a deep and practical knowledge of programming, software architecture and security, spanning numerous languages and platforms.
He has successfully built and implemented software solutions across a wide range of business sectors for over 20 years.
Janis Pereira
Chief Operating Officer & Global Educational Partnerships Lead
Janis is a seasoned digital expert with degrees in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics and experience educating doctors, community health workers and researchers.
She applies her creative, data-driven approach to medical education programs, with a special focus on LMICs.
Paul Jackman
Chief Experience Officer
Paul combines his deep understanding of the medical community’s needs and client objectives to drive innovation and deliver highly engaging microlearning experiences. He ensures MedShr’s platform evolves strategically to provide impactful education through innovative solutions and customer-centric design.
Chloe Fikouhi-Turner
Innovations and Partnerships Director
Chloe brings extensive experience in healthcare, technology, and biopharma, specialising in forging impactful partnerships with global stakeholders. She is committed to enhancing clinical knowledge and improving patient outcomes through innovative collaborations and aligned strategies.
Phil Lindsell
Senior Partnerships Manager
Phil guides partners through their targeted HCP engagement programmes from kick-off to delivery, ensuring their needs are met and educational goals achieved. He also oversees the review and approvals process, ensuring compliance and quality. With expertise in commercial partnerships and programme delivery, Phil fosters strong relationships and drives impactful outcomes for healthcare professionals and patients.
Dr Dhikshitha Gokulakrishnan
Clinical Manager
GMC registered doctor, currently working as a clinical manager at MedShr. Passionate about medical education, widening access within medical education.
Helen Farrimond
Partnerships Director
Helen brings extensive healthcare experience across therapeutic areas, building long-term partnerships and fostering collaboration. With expertise in multichannel communication, she works with marketing and medical teams to enhance HCP engagement and support MedShr’s mission to improve patient outcomes.
Wendy Kwangsue
Partnerships Manager
Wendy combines her expertise in business development and strategic partnerships with her background as a pharmacist (PharmD) and MBA graduate. She drives impactful collaborations in healthcare, improving outcomes by connecting stakeholders, bridging knowledge gaps, and advancing medical education initiatives.
Fatema Nur Oni
Community Executive (Partnerships)
Fatema Nur specialises in preparing detailed mockups of medical education content for client review, ensuring compliant delivery and alignment with client specifications. She also contributes to business development by identifying educational partners and helping the team build strategic relationships that drive impactful programmes.
Dean Williams
Senior Partnerships Manager
Dean brings over 30 years of healthcare experience spanning pharmaceuticals, medical education and business intelligence. He focuses on building strong client relationships to deliver outcome-driven medical education across a range of therapy areas.
Sam Killen
Partnerships Manager
Having led physician engagement for the Healthcare Workers Foundation, Sam now leads MedShr's partnerships with not-for-profit organisations. Her team helps medical societies make the most of MedShr's award winning technology to deliver high quality medical education and a secure case discussion forum for their members.
Naziat Afrin
Account Executive
Naziat stays informed about developments in the pharmaceutical industry, identifying opportunities for impactful educational collaborations. Her work supports MedShr’s business development efforts, driving partnerships that expand the reach of MedShr’s programmes and advance medical education on a global scale.
Jalene Berget
HCP Program Director
Jalene leads MedShr’s program delivery team, playing a pivotal role in the successful, timely, and impactful delivery of medical education and HCP engagement programs.
Passionate about MedShr’s global mission, she is dedicated to helping doctors worldwide advance clinical knowledge and improve patient care.
Zachary Lukac
Data & Insight Analyst
Zachary has a Master's in Health Data Science and experience delivering insights for a wide range of clients. Zachary is passionate about leveraging data at MedShr to enhance medical education programs, optimise HCP engagement and support functional teams in achieving their objectives.
Maísa Corner
Head of Targeted Digital Delivery
Maisa leads the highly targeted and timely omnichannel promotion essential to the successful delivery of MedShr’s medical education programmes, including cases, polls, and learning modules. With a background in biomaterials research, she applies a strong scientific and analytical approach to her work, driven by a passion for improving patient care globally.
Abdishakur Osman
Data and Insight Analyst
Jannatul Ferdaous Shimu
Targeted Digital Delivery Executive
Shimu is part of the team responsible for ensuring the targeted delivery of polls, clinical cases and medical learning modules that form an integral part of MedShr’s medical education programs.
Anya Parkhouse
Senior Medical Writer
Anya leads medical writing and needs assessments for MedShr’s education programmes, creating tailored content to engage healthcare professionals. With extensive experience in medical communications and marketing, and an MA from Cambridge, she ensures impactful and strategic programme delivery.
Fatema Nur Oni
Community Executive (Partnerships)
Fatema Nur specialises in preparing detailed mockups of medical education content for client review, ensuring compliant delivery and alignment with client specifications. She also contributes to business development by identifying educational partners and helping the team build strategic relationships that drive impactful programmes.
Dr Sugam Taneja
Clinical Manager
Sugam has worked as a Radiology Consultant for many years before transitioning to HealthTech. He has served as a clinical advisor and business development manager with several start-ups focusing on introducing patented AI technology in radiological procedures. Sugam has a long history of working with HCPs in low-resource settings and boasts extensive experience in delivering education to healthcare professionals.
Dr Amy Boalch
Clinical Manager
Amy is a family physician with NHS training experience, pursuing an MSc in Medical Education focused on technology’s role in learning. As a practising GP, she ensures MedShr’s programs address the evolving needs of physicians and healthcare professionals.
Umar Kayode
Community Executive (Partnerships)
Kay serves as the main contact for medical societies, helping them deliver self-paced medical education programmes and online courses on MedShr. He ensures a seamless process for onboarding their clinical members and learners to their case discussion groups and educational hubs on MedShr, making it quick and easy for societies to engage their audiences effectively.
Joe Palmer
Lead Mobile Developer
Joe has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, spanning dynamic startups and Fortune 500 companies. He specialises in solving complex technical challenges and driving innovation, ensuring MedShr’s mobile-first platform provides seamless, engaging experiences for healthcare professionals.
Gaetano Cerniglia
Senior IOS Developer
Gaetano plays a key role in designing MedShr’s mobile-first, self-paced medical education platform, ensuring it is engaging, intuitive, and tailored to healthcare professionals’ needs. With over 20 years of software engineering experience, he brings exceptional problem-solving skills and technical expertise.
Moshood Hassan Lawal
Quality Assurance
Moshood plays a key role in member verification and product testing, ensuring MedShr’s platform is robust, secure and user-friendly. He also provides technical support to healthcare professionals using the app to share clinical cases and access self-paced medical learning modules.
Kirsty Hanson
Lead Quality Assurance
Kirsty plays a pivotal role in evolving MedShr’s platform, ensuring product releases and app updates meet the changing needs of the medical community. Her work is essential to maintaining a robust, reliable platform that supports impactful medical education globally.
Olawale Abiola
Head of HCP Onboarding
Olawale leads MedShr’s verification and member onboarding team, ensuring every healthcare professional requesting access is thoroughly reviewed. He ensures accurate details on roles, specialties, and locations are gathered, enabling targeted delivery of cases, polls, and learning content, while helping new members get started on the platform.
Amena Farha
Community Executive (HCP Verification)
Farha is part of the team responsible for ensuring MedShr remains a secure and trusted platform exclusively for healthcare professionals. She supports robust member verification processes and helps new HCPs get started, fostering a safe and collaborative environment.s in meeting their goals with precision.
Fatema Jahan
Community Executive (Product Testing)
Fatema Jahan is part of the team that helps ensure MedShr remains a secure and trusted space for healthcare professionals worldwide. She also supports quality assurance by testing and refining app features to meet the evolving needs of the HCP community.
Samia Amin
Community Executive (Case Discussion)
Samia works closely with the Clinical Team to review user-generated clinical cases, ensuring they meet compliance standards and deliver value. She curates engaging, specialty-specific content for healthcare professionals, providing fresh material tailored to their interests and needs.
Morning Wu
Digital Growth Marketing Manager
Morning is integral to growing MedShr’s global community of healthcare professionals across all roles and specialties. Through data-driven, targeted campaigns, he builds awareness of compliant case discussion and accessible, self-paced medical education, driving measurable growth and meaningful engagement.
Hafeza Haque Adity
Community Executive (HCP Onboarding)
Adity is part of the team responsible for maintaining MedShr as a secure, GMC- and HIPAA compliant platform for healthcare professionals. She specialises in member verification, user onboarding, and data analysis, ensuring the platform remains trusted and supports community growth.
Md Raisat Amin
Community Executive (HCP Targeting)
Raisat supports the execution of highly targeted, timely omnichannel promotions essential to the success of MedShr’s medical education programmes. His work ensures the effective delivery of cases, polls, and learning modules to engage healthcare professionals worldwide.
Punom Nandi
Community Executive (Product Testing)
Punom is focused on product testing to ensure MedShr’s platform remains robust, reliable, and aligned with the needs of healthcare professionals. With nearly six years at MedShr, she is a dedicated team member committed to supporting the platform’s mission.
Mehrab Abir
Community Executive (Data & Insights)
Mehrab supports the analysis and reporting that drive the impact of MedShr’s medical education programmes. By turning data into actionable insights, his work helps optimise programme delivery, enhance engagement, and ensure measurable success for clients and healthcare professionals.
Mosharrafatun Nesa
Community Executive (Case Discussion)
Mosharrafatun Nesa collaborates with the Clinical Team to review user-generated clinical cases, ensuring compliance and high-quality content. She curates fresh, relevant material for healthcare professionals across all roles and specialties, tailored to their interests and areas of practice.
