Shafi Ahmed Explained

Birth Place:Sylhet District, East Pakistan
Nationality:British
Occupation:Surgeon, teacher, futurist, entrepreneur
Spouse:Farzana Hussain
Website:http://www.professorshafiahmed.com
Profession:Surgeon
Field:Colorectal surgery
Work Institutions:Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital
Prizes:Silver Scalpel Prize 2015, Asian Tech Star 2017, Digital Leader Award 2017, Future NHS Prize 2018

Shafi Ahmed is a chief surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, professor and entrepreneur.[1]

Biography

Personal life

Ahmed lives in London. He is married to Farzana Hussain, a general practitioner, with whom he has two children.[2]

Early life and education

He was born on 26 January 1969 in Sylhet District, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and came to the United Kingdom as a child.[3]

Ahmed attended Chadwell Heath High School (now Chadwell Heath Academy) before attending the Redbridge technical college.

From 1988 to 1993, he studied medicine at King's College Hospital School of Medicine. As the elected President of the Medical and Dental Society, he helped introduce medical ethics into the curriculum.

During his surgical training in London, he undertook a period of research at The Royal London Hospital and the Queen Mary University of London. In 2010, he obtained a PhD with a thesis entitled "The role of microarray profiling in predicting outcome in patients with colorectal cancer".[4]

Ahmed has been awarded four honorary PhDs (Honoris Causa) from Udabol University Bolivia, SIISDET Colombia, the University of Peru of Science and Informatics and EXIBED, Spain.

In 2017, he was appointed as an honorary professor at The University of Bradford and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine in 2019.[5]

In 2020 he was awarded the Spinoza Honorary professorship at the University of Amsterdam.[6]

Career

Ahmed is a specialist advisor to the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Health to help deliver innovation and digital health.[7]

Clinical practice

Ahmed works in the Academic Centre of Surgery and has established minimally invasive colorectal surgery at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust.[8]

His main clinical interest is colorectal cancer, and he performs surgery for primary and recurrent disease as well as multi-visceral resections.

He has pioneered single incision laparoscopic colorectal surgery (virtual scarless surgery) and also works with liver surgeons to perform simultaneous laparoscopic liver and bowel resections for cancer. His other clinical interest is advanced stage 3/4 endometriosis, performing laparoscopic surgery with gynaecologists. This has led to the development and recognition of a national centre for endometriosis. In addition, he has specialist experience in complex abdominal wall hernias and reconstruction.[3]

From 2010 to 2015, Ahmed was the lead clinician and multi-disciplinary team lead for colorectal cancer at Barts Health NHS Trust. He was also a CQC specialist advisor in general surgery.

Teaching

Ahmed was the Associate Dean for Barts and the London undergraduate medical students at The Royal London Hospital from 2010 to 2019 and was the lead for surgery. He was programme director for core surgical trainees for North East London 2012–2013 and Tutor in Surgery for the Royal London Hospital 2011–2013. He teaches innovation and digital transformation for surgeons at Harvard Medical School and Imperial College London.[9]

He is the civilian advisor for the British Armed forces for general surgery.

Royal College of Surgeons of England

From 2013 to 2019, Ahmed was elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.[10] He had numerous roles and led the International Surgical Training Programme. He was part of the Cancer 2020, 5 Year Forward View Taskforce 2015.[11] He is a member of the court of examiners and is an international convenor of the MRCS for Bangladesh.[12]

NHS

In 2007, Ahmed was appointed as a Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Colorectal surgeon to The Royal London Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust.

He was chosen to curate the NHS Twitter account from 27 February 2017 to 3 March 2017 and tweeted the world's first live operation via this account.

He was the clinical lead for surgery at the NHS Nightingale Hospital at Excel London during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Ahmed performed a live cancer operation at The Royal London Hospital on Channel 5 for the series Operation Live in 2018.

Barts X Medicine

Ahmed is the module lead for an innovative new course at Barts and the London Medical School which aims to teach the third year medical students about future medicine and how to generate ideas to improve clinical care.[13] [1] The students are taught by digital health innovators and those involved in Medtech from the UK and US.

Entrepreneurship

Ahmed has been working on new technologies to enhance surgical education globally. His online videos have been watched hundreds of thousands of times, earning him the accolade of the most-watched surgeon in human history.[14]

He aims to teach surgery and surgical processes to thousands of students at a time using VR technology.[15]

Virtual Medics

Ahmed's company Virtual Medics developed the use of wearable technology in education and clinical practice. This has allowed the development of a web-placed platform to stream live and interactive teaching.

In May 2014, using Google Glass, he performed and streamed a live operation to 14 thousand students across 132 countries and 1100 cities.[16]

Medical Realities

Ahmed is the co-founder of Medical Realities, a group offering surgical training products, specialising in virtual reality, augmented reality and serious games.[17] Through Medical Realities, he aims to provide tutorials in a modular format to teaching hospitals around the world. This will be made accessible to students and surgical trainees.

On 14 April 2016, in collaboration with Barts Health, Medical Realities and Mativision, he performed the world's first virtual reality operation recorded and streamed live in 360 degrees.[8] [18] [19] This was viewed by 55,000 people in 140 countries and 4000 cities and reached 4.6 million people on Twitter.

This event was covered worldwide on over 400 newspaper/online articles and BBC Click, Sky News, ARD German, TRT News, South American NTN, ABC News, Aljazeera, and Press TV.[20] [21] [22] [23] His work has been featured on Wired, The Guardian, The Telegraph, ABC News, CNET, The Verge, Huffington Post, and Tech China.[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

On 9 December 2016, he performed the world's first live operation using Snapchat Spectacles where he trained 200 medical students and surgical trainees, which was covered by Time magazine, and BBC.[31] [32] [33] The operation has been viewed over 100,000 times.[34]

He is a non-executive director of Medic creations, GPDQ and Imera.[35]

He is the chair of the GIANT (Global Innovation and New Technologies) Health Event in London and also the chair of the Webit Health conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, which showcases startups, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.[36] [37]

Notable lectures

Ahmed is a three time TEDx speaker and four times Wired Health and international keynote speaker, and a member of the faculty at Exponential Medicine, Singularity University.

On 15 March 2017, Ahmed delivered the Cantor Technology Lecture at the University of Bradford and also delivered the public lecture to open the Digital Health Enterprise Zone.[47]

Philanthropy

He is Vice-President of Proshanti, a local charity community project to set up a health programme in Bangladesh, He is an advisor to Beani Bazaar Cancer Hospital, Bangladesh.[48] He also teaches and trains surgeons in Dhaka, Bangladesh where he is the Dean for education at Rahetid, a postgraduate surgical training centre.[49]

Publications

Awards and accolades

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mr Shafi Ahmed, Director of Medical Realities & Virtual Medics, Founder of Barts X Medicine. Doctorpreneurs. 11 January 2017. en.
  2. Web site: Karim . Mohammed Abdul . British Bangladeshi Who's Who 2009 . CiteSeer PennState College of Information Sciences and Technology . British Bangla Media Group . 25 April 2023 . 17 . October 2009.
  3. Why Doctors Are Using Snapchat Glasses in Operating Rooms . Time . 25 January 2018.
  4. Microarray profiling of colorectal cancer in Bangladeshi patients. 2005-10-18. Colorectal Disease. 2005. 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2005.00818.x. en. Ahmed. S.. Banerjea. A.. Hands. R. E.. Bustin. S.. Dorudi. S.. 7. 6. 571–575. 16232237. 6781583.
  5. Web site: Dr Shafi Ahmed, Honorary Professor - HPRFOLS at the University of Bradford . www.bradford.ac.uk . 19 June 2021.
  6. Web site: tweet by Prof Shafi Ahmed PhD FRCS . Twitter . 19 June 2021 . en.
  7. Web site: COVID-19 May Briefing: The UK&I Healthcare Ecosystem Fightback . Pharmaphorum.com . 14 May 2020 . 27 May 2020.
  8. Web site: Barts Health NHS Trust. 2020-07-17. NHS. en.
  9. News: The real-world uses for virtual reality . BBC News . 24 October 2016 . 24 October 2016.
  10. Web site: College Council - Royal College of Surgeons. ac. en.
  11. Web site: Cancer Strategy in England. 2018-10-02. Cancer Research UK. 10 March 2017. en.
  12. Web site: Dr. Shafi Ahmed . www.rcseng.ac.uk.
  13. The rise of medical entrepreneurs. 2017-04-25. BMJ. 2017. 10.1136/sbmj.j1694. 31055445. en. Limb. Matt. 357. j1694. 145820049.
  14. Web site: Shafi Ahmed—The Virtual Surgeon—Discusses Live Streaming and VR in Surgery and Med Education. 2017-04-06. Med Gadget. 6 April 2017. en.
  15. News: Davis . Nicola . Cutting-edge theatre: world's first virtual reality operation goes live . The Guardian . 14 April 2016.
  16. Web site: Video: Surgeon uses Google Glass during cancer operation. https://web.archive.org/web/20160113003711/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/10851599/Surgeon-uses-Google-Glass-during-cancer-operation.html. dead. 2016-01-13. 2014-05-23. Telegraph. en.
  17. Web site: Medical Realities. Medical Realities. en.
  18. Web site: Mativision. Mativision - 360 VR. en.
  19. Web site: Cutting-edge theatre: world's first virtual reality operation goes live. 2016-04-16. The Guardian. 14 April 2016. en.
  20. News: Cancer surgery broadcast live in virtual reality. BBC News. 2016-04-14. en.
  21. Web site: Der erste 360-Livestream einer OP ist ein Ausblick auf die Zukunft des Lernens. 2016-04-15. Mixed. 15 April 2016. de.
  22. Web site: Uk Virtual's surgical students use new technology to learn, John Brain reports. 2016-04-16. Youtube. en.
  23. Web site: Students in Gaza watch world's first virtual reality operation. 2016-04-20. Middle East Monitor. 20 April 2016. en.
  24. What's next for VR surgery?. 2016-04-14. Wired. en.
  25. Robot doctors will 'absolutely' replace surgeons. 2016-04-29. Wired. en.
  26. Web site: Cutting-edge theatre: world's first virtual reality operation goes live. 2016-04-14. The Guardian. 14 April 2016. en.
  27. Web site: UK cancer surgery to be live-streamed via virtual reality technology. 2016-03-25. The Guardian. 25 March 2016. en.
  28. Web site: UK Surgeon Experiments With Oculus Rift to Make 'Virtual Surgeon'. 2015-03-14. Abcnews. en.
  29. Web site: Watch a cancer operation at any angle via Google Cardboard. 2016-03-16. CNET. en.
  30. Web site: Watch a real cancer surgery streamed live in virtual reality at 8AM ET. 2016-04-14. Theverge. 14 April 2016. en.
  31. Web site: Here is the world's first surgery broadcasted on Snapchat Spectacles. 2016-12-09. Haptic. en.
  32. Snapchat: How a Doctor Used Spectacles to Record a Surgery. 2016-12-12. Time. en.
  33. News: Snapchat spectacles worn by UK surgeon while operating. BBC News. 14 December 2016. 2016-12-14. en.
  34. Web site: Snapchat Spectacles Surgery 9/12/2016 London Independent Hospital. 2016-12-11. Youtube. en.
  35. Web site: Medic Bleep. Medic Bleep. en.
  36. Web site: Giant Health Event 2020. 2020-07-14. Giant. en.
  37. Web site: Speakers of Webit. Webit. en.
  38. Web site: TEDxUCL. Ted. en.
  39. WIRED Health 2018 Speaker Faculty, London. 2017-11-21. Wired. en.
  40. Web site: AR/VR & Visioning The Future Of Medical Education with Rafael Grossmann & Shafi Ahmed - Exponential Medicine. 2017-10-02. Singularityu. en.
  41. Web site: Shafi Ahmed on Visualizing the Future of Medical Education, from VR to the OR. 2017-11-29. Singularityu. en.
  42. Web site: An Avatar in your O.R., Redefining Human Interaction in Surgery with Shafi Ahmed at Exponential Medicine 2017. 2018-01-31. Singularityu. en.
  43. Web site: Dubai Health Forum 2019. Dubai Health Forum. en.
  44. Web site: Knowledge Summit 2017 - Dr. Shafi Ahmed قمة المعرفة 2017 - الدكتور شافي أحمد. 2017-11-09. Youtube. en.
  45. Web site: XR technology - CopenX - Danmark. Copenx. en.
  46. Web site: UPGRADE 100 - Install The Best Version of You. Upgrade100. en.
  47. Web site: DHEZ Academic Launch and Lecture with Mr Shafi Ahmed. Bradford UNISU. en.
  48. Web site: Pro Shanti. Pro Shanti. en.
  49. Web site: RAHETID. Rahetid. en.
  50. Web site: Silver Scalpel Award 2015. 2015-03-04. Swann-Morton. en.
  51. Web site: SILVER SCALPEL AWARD WINNERS. Asit. en.
  52. Web site: Barts Health NHS Trust. NHS. en.
  53. Web site: BBPOWER INSPIRATION. BBpower-Inspiration. en.
  54. Web site: Person of the Year. BBpower-Inspiration. en.
  55. Web site: Chairman's Award 2017. 2017-06-08. Asians In Tech. en.
  56. Web site: Pioneering VR Surgeon Shafi Ahmed is named Top Asian in UK Tech 2017. 2017-06-06. New Asian Post. en.
  57. Web site: NATIONAL AWARDS, CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION – DEVELOPING YOUR PORTFOLIO PROGRAMME. Alternative Docs. en.
  58. Web site: Our surgeon chosen to represent London in NHS birthday awards. 2018-06-21. NHS. en.
  59. Web site: Shortlist for the NHS70 Parliamentary Awards 2018. NHS Parliamentary Awards. en.

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