Sir Nilesh Jayantilal Samani, DL, FRCP, FMedSci (born 19 July 1956) is a British physician who is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, and a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester.
[1][2][3] Samani is of ethnic Indian origin and was born in Nanyuki, Kenya.
He was educated at the Lenana School in Nairobi, and once his family moved to the UK in 1971, at Charles Keene College in Leicester.
He then studied at the University of Leicester, where he obtained a First Class Honours BSc degree in Medical Sciences in 1978.
[6] Samani achieved his MD degree with distinction and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) both in 1994, and of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2002.