The Christie charity Impact Report 2021-22

A DOCTOR AND A FUNDRAISER A Christie doctor took on an epic bike ride challenge to raise money for our charity – in memory of his brother who was a patient here.

Dr Hamid Sheikh, a consultant clinical oncologist, knows both personally and professionally how important The Christie is to patients and their families. He was among hundreds of cyclists who took on the Manchester 100 Bike Ride. He said: “The Christie has touched many of our lives on a personal level, including my own, so I decided to complete the Manchester 100 bike ride to support our charity. “I took part in memory of my dear brother Sohail, my childhood best friend and the cleverest person I ever knew. In his short life of 22 years he

achieved so much and fought acute lymphoblastic leukaemia during six of those with tremendous courage and great dignity. “Even though he missed a huge part of his A level year at school while receiving chemotherapy at The Christie, he won a place at Oxford university to read medicine. He studied there at St John’s College until his illness relapsed before he could graduate and sadly he could not fulfil his dream to become a doctor and care for others. I am sure he would be very proud of the fact that I now work at the same hospital where he was treated, helping patients like him.”

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