Shafi Ahmed

Professor Shafi Ahmed is a multi award winning surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, entrepreneur and an evangelist in augmented and virtual reality. He is a 3x TEDx and an international keynote speaker and is a faculty at Singularity University.

He is a cancer surgeon at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals and has been awarded the accolade of the most watched surgeon in human history. As a dedicated trainer, educator, and Associate Dean of Bart’s Medical School, he was awarded the Silver Scalpel award in 2015 as the best national trainer in surgery by the Association of Surgeons in Training. He is currently serving as an elected member of council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England where he is the Director of the International Surgical Training Programme. 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 2017 he was the top Top British Asian star in Tech and received this award from HRH Duke of York.

Education

• Certificate in Medical Informatics Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Fellow Royal Society of Arts (2021 — 2021)
• Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Educators Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh (2021)

Companies

• Non Executive Director The Considered (2021)
• Editorial Strategic Advisory Board Member BMJ Innovations (2021)
• Panel Member of Independent Review of Equality and Diversity The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2020)
• Visiting Professor Imperial College London (2020)
• Associate Editor The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2020)
• Ambassador Vodafone Business (2020)
• Visiting Professor University of Amsterdam (2020)
• Faculty Member Imperial College London (2019)
• Medical Advisor Merck (2019)