Kiran Saini

Kiran Saini is a Teaching Associate, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Kiran is an alum of Green Templeton, where he read medicine. He won the Nautilus award at for outstanding academic contribution to college life. Whilst at Green Templeton he co-founded the charitable organisation OxPal 2.0, an initiative to provide medical education to students in austere environments such as Palestine. This college contributed seed funding towards this effort, and continues to support the organisation with its annual contribution to the OxPal summer school programme for students from the West Bank.

Since graduating he continued his Foundation training in North West London before returning to Oxford for Core surgical training. He is the first president of the Royal College of Surgeons’ (Ed.) Core Trainee Forum – the first ever core surgical trainee led committee in a Royal College. He is trying to improve education opportunities for early career surgeons.

He has written a book for Cambridge University Press (publication in October 2024) on applications to core surgical training. Kiran has won multiple teaching awards for his efforts. His research into computer vision models in Urology has won the BAUS national award for best presentation on artificial intelligence and technology (2024).