Sameer graduated in Medicine from Glasgow university in 2002, having also completed a degree in Epidemiology and Public Health. He trained in Psychiatry in the West of Scotland, and after having failed in a few Fellowhsip applications, secured a Research Fellow position at the Institute of Psychiatry in 2012, to undertake Positron Emission Tomography (PET) studies of the dopamine system in psychosis. He subsequently gained his PhD with Oliver Howes and Shitij Kapur, and continued to work at the IoP (now IoPPN) as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Affective Disorders and Psychosis. His research has focused on molecular imaging and psychpharmacology, as well as evidence-based medicine. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications (some of which have appeared in high impact Journals, including The Lancet, Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry and the BMJ). He has been fortunate enough to have been given a Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), in the field of depression, and was awarded the Senior Clinical Award from the British Association for Psychopharmacology in 2019, and the Rafaelson Award from the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2022.
