Professor Shafi Ahmed is a multi award winning cancer surgeon working at The Royal London Hospital. He is the CEO and cofounder of Medical Realities, a VR education company.
He is a member of the NHS assembly advising the government on the NHS Long Term Plan and was awarded the Future NHS Award by members of Parliament in 2018. He was also the Asian Star in UK Tech in 2018. He won the Silver Scalpel as best national trainer in surgery in 2015 and has been given the accolade of the world's most watched surgeon as has streamed live operations using Google Glass, Virtual Reality, social media and on national television on Operation Live which was shortlisted for a BAFTA award in 2019. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for his humanitarian work in conflict zones and global surgical education.
He was the Associate Dean of Bart’s Medical School and an elected member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England where he led the international and global health programme. He has worked as an advisor to Ajlan brothers in Saudi Arabia and the Abu Dhabi government for digital transformation of health and innovation. He is currently the Vodafone UK Connected Health/5G Ambassador.
He is faculty at Imperial College,Barts Medical School,Queen Mary University,Bradford University, Harvard Medical School and Singularity University where he teaches on innovation/digital transformation. He has set up surgical education programmes in over 20 countries including conflict zones. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and University College Global Business School for Health, Honorary Professor at Bradford University and The Spinoza Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
He is the Associate Editor for technology and innovation at the Annals of Royal College of Surgeons and a member of the Editorial Strategic Advisory Board of BMJ Innovations.
He is a Non-Executive Director for The Considered, a global health marketing agency.
He chairs the Webit Health summit and co-founded the GIANT health summit in London.
He is one of the top 20 global influencers in digital health and innovation and is a HIMSS Future50 clinical leader 2019.
He is a 3x TEDx and international speaker having delivered over 300 keynotes in over 30 countries on innovation/the future of healthcare/digital transformation. His work has been featured in over 400 newspapers, tech journals and mainstream TV news channels including Sky, BBC, ITV BBC World, CNN, ABC, Al Jazeera,.RT, China TV, CNBC, Forbes, Bloomberg, Time, Wired, Guardian, The Times.
Selected publications from PubMed
Exploring Agentic AI in Healthcare: A Study on Its Working Mechanism.
Srinivasu PN, Aruna Kumari GL, Ahmed S, Alhumam A
Front Med (Lausanne). 2025;12:1753443 doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1753443.
Impact and evolution of minimal invasive surgery in a centralized colorectal service: trends, safety and oncological outcomes across 15 years.
Toffaha A, Al-Dhaheri M, Ahmed S, Ahmed A, Amer I, Khawar M, Aleter A, Latif E, Abdul-Hafez HA, Ahmed S, Yousif M, Naimi NA, Kurer MA, Parvaiz A, Abunada M
World J Surg Oncol. 2025 Dec 15;24(1):47 doi: 10.1186/s12957-025-04158-6.
Association between objective performance indicators and patient outcomes in robotic surgery: a systematic review.
Ahmed S, Waqar U, Salar H, Salar M, Irshad HA, Khan MMM, Shields MC, Olson TJP, Rosen SA
J Robot Surg. 2025 Dec 9;20(1):65 doi: 10.1007/s11701-025-03031-8.
A Predictive Approach for Enhancing Accuracy in Remote Robotic Surgery Using Informer Model.
Lashari MH, Ahmed S, Batayneh W, Khokhar A
Sensors (Basel). 2025 May 13;25(10) doi: 10.3390/s25103067.
Predicting Surgical Difficulty in Rectal Cancer Surgery: A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Models Applied to Pre-Operative MRI.
Hardacre C, Hibbs T, Fok M, Wiles R, Bashar N, Ahmed S, Mascarenhas Saraiva M, Zheng Y, Javed MA
Cancers (Basel). 2025 Feb 26;17(5) doi: 10.3390/cancers17050812.
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