Background
Samani is of ethnic Indian origin and was born in Nanyuki, Kenya. His mother tongue is Gujarati.
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Nilesh Samani
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Education
He was educated at the Lenana School in Nairobi and once his family moved to the United Kingdom in 1971, at Charles Keene College in Leicester, and then studied medicine at the University of Leicester.
Career
Serving as a house officer from 1981 and then as a Senior house officer from 1982 to 1985, Samani then became an Medical Research Council Clinical Trainee Fellow until 1988. From that point, he served as a lecturer in medicine, then senior lecturer from 1993 onwards co-terminous with his appointment as a consultant at Glenfield until his elevation to Professor in 1997. Since 2010 he has served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
He was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for "services to Medicine and Medical Research".
