Congratulations to Usama Syed

Usama Syed, a final year medical student in the Faculty of Medicine, was selected for a 2015 Imperial College London Outstanding Student Achievement Award. These awards are to recognize and commend outstanding achievement beyond the academic subject area. Usama was nominated for his award by the Department of Primary Care and Public Health.

Usama's achievements include:

Founding a new society at the College - MedTech Imperial- designed to bring together students across the medical, engineering, and computing departments,
With colleagues coding a brand new mobile phone application designed to streamline the way front-line hospital staff provide feedback and quality improvement ideas to senior medical directors.
Researching and writing articles for the official Imperial College website on medical topics for public release.
Editing a newsletter for a Health Centre in Clapham, London. In this role, he has written numerous articles for local residents on topics such as travel safety and antibiotic resistance, and also clarified misconceptions about Ebola during the height of the Ebola crisis. The newsletter has a readership of nearly 2,000 people, and Usama plays a key role in disseminating information on self-care, health promotion and local health services to people living in Clapham.
In 2015, Usama was a prize-winner in an International Surgical Essay Prize competition. Usama’s entry on the subject ‘How minimally invasive can surgery become?’ was ranked as second in this world-wide competition.

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