Professor Shafi Ahmed is a multi-award winning surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, entrepreneur and humanitarian

After studying medicine at Kings College Hospital Medical School London, he completed his surgical training in London and currently works as a Consultant Laparoscopic Colorectal surgeon at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals.

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He is a 3x TEDx and an international keynote speaker and has taught on the surgical leadership programme at Harvard Medical School. He has been faculty at Bart’s Medical School, Imperial College London, Queen Mary University, Bradford University, Bolton University, Stellenbosch Business School and Singularity University where he teaches on digital health, innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. 

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He was Associate Dean at Barts Medical school and head of surgery and also director of core surgical training in London. As a member of council at the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was the director of the international surgical training programme.

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He was a member of the NHS Assembly advising on the NHS long term plan. He has been the advisor to Abilitii and Ajlan Brothers, Saudi Arabia and has been an advisor to the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Health to help deliver innovation and digital Health. He was also the Vodafone Connected Health Ambassador and sat on the board of The Centre for Health. He has been a consultant advisor for many blue chip companies. 

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He is an honorary visiting professor at The University of Bradford where he delivered the Cantor Lecture of Technology in 2017 and the public lecture to open the Digital Health Enterprise Zone. In 2020 he was awarded the Spinoza visiting Professorship at the University of Amsterdam. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College, London and also Honoray Professor for Practice at University College Global Business School for Health. He has been appointed as Professor of Strategic Innovation at Bolton University. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Bradford University, Udabol University, Bolivia, SIISDET Colombia, University of Science, Peru and EXIBED, Spain.

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In 2016 he was awarded the silver scalpel award for being the best national surgical trainer. In 2018 he was awarded the Future NHS award for NHS70 by members of parliament. In 2017 he was the top British Asian star in Tech. He was also the British Bangladeshi of the Year 2017. 

He is a much sought after public speaker and has delivered over 300 international keynotes in 45 countries on the future of healthcare and digital transformation. His work has been featured in over 400 newspapers, tech journals and mainstream TV news channels including Sky, BBC, CNN, ABC, Al Jazeera, CNBC, Time, Forbes, Bloomberg. 

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He is a serial entrepreneur having set up multiple companies. He is the CEO and cofounder of Medical Realties, an award winning XR education company and is the world’s first chief medical metaverse officer for AIMEDIS who are building the first healthcare city in the Metaverse. He is a NED for The Considered, a global health ad agency based in New York. 

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He is a humanitarian and as worked in many countries including war zones and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for his humanitarian work and global surgical education.