Shamima Rahman,

 is Professor of Paediatric Metabolic Medicine at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) and honorary Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. She established the Mitochondrial Research Group at ICH in 2000, which she continues to lead. The group focuses on enhancing outcomes for children affected by mitochondrial and other rare metabolic diseases by improving diagnostic strategies and investigating novel therapeutic approaches.
Professor Rahman is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, sits on the Medical Advisory Boards of the Lily Foundation and the Freya Foundation, is a member of the Medical Research Council Clinical Training Panel, a Director of the North American Metabolic Academy, and acts as a special adviser to the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.