 He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) (1995) and Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1992).The Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health in Association with Harvard School of Public Health has awarded him with an honorary degree of Master of Science in Environmental health in 2009.In 2016 Kazem received an Order of the British Empire from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for his services to UK/Kuwait Healthcare cooperation.