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Shafi Ahmed is a surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, entrepreneur and an evangelist in Augmented and Virtual Reality

Shafi was born on 26th January 1969 in Sylhet District, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and came to the United Kingdom as a child. His father, the late Mimbor Ali, was honoured by the Bangladeshi government for his significant contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh.

He was appointed as a Consultant General, Laparosopic and Colorectal surgeon to the Royal London Hospital and St Bartholomews Hospitals, Barts Health in 2007.

Education

Shafi attended Chadwell Heath High School (now Chadwell Heath Academy) and then attended Redbridge technical college

Undergraduate

He studied medicine between 1988-1993 at Kings College Hospital School of Medicine. At university he was elected President of of the Medical and Dental Society from 1989-90 and helped introduce medical ethics into the curriculum. He was awarded the Jelf medal in 1990 for outstanding academic and social achievement at Kings College London. He was also won the WG Oakley prize in Diabetes in 1992 for an original dissertation entitled "Diabetic Neuroarthropathy: the Pathogenesis of the Charcot joint”

He was an accomplished sportsman playing Football for the 1st XI between 1988 - 1993 and also United Hospitals representative team 1990 -1992. He captained the Cricket 1st XI 1991-1993

Postgraduate

Shafi completed his basic and higher surgical training in North East London in general surgery.

During his surgical training he undertook a period of research at The Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary University of London and obtained a PhD in 2010. His thesis was entitled "The role of microarray profiling in predicting outcome in patients with colorectal cancer" He has written over 100 academic papers/articles

He obtained his FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed) and FRCSI (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh and Ireland) in 2007 -2008. He completed his intercollegiate final FRCS(Gen.Surg) in 2006

He also obtained a Certificate in Medical Informatics from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2005

Clinical Practice

Shafi is an honorary senior lecturer and works in the Academic Centre of Surgery and has established minimally invasive colorectal surgery at The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

His main clinical interest is colorectal cancer and he performs radical pelvic surgery for primary and recurrent disease as well as multi-visceral resections. His other interests are diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease and pouch surgery, coloproctology and the modern management of haemorrhoids.

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 complex 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.

From 2010 to 2015 he was the lead clinician and multi-disciplinary team lead for colorectal cancer at Barts Health NHS Trust and took part in many peer reviews. He is also a CQC specialist advisor in general surgery.

He undertakes private work at The London Independent Hospital and The Spire Roding Hospital

Charity

He is Vice President of Proshanti a local charity community project to set up a health programme in Bangladesh and teaches and trains Surgeons in Dhaka,  Bangladesh where he supports Rahetid a postgraduate surgical training centre

Awards
 * Jelf Medal 1990. Awarded by the Principal of the College for the best academic and social achievement in the medical faculty of King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry.


 * W.G.Oakley Prize in Diabetes 1992. Awarded for an original dissertation entitled “Diabetic Neuroarthropathy: the Pathogenesis of the Charcot joint”


 * British Journal of Surgery Prize  2004. Awarded at the Association of Coloproctology, Edinburgh 2004 for best oral presentation “Prediction of Lymph Node Status in Colorectal Cancer by Microarray Profiling”


 * Silver Scalpel Prize 2015 . Awarded by the Association of Surgeons of Training for Best Surgical Trainer in UK

Barts Health Heroes Awards:
 * Islamic society of Britain/British Telecom Innovation Business and Skills Award winner 2016
 * 2013 Nominated for Relentlessly improving and innovating for patient safety


 * 2013 Nominated for Actively listening and responding to patients, staff and our partners


 * 2014 Nominated for Caring and compassionate with patients, each other and our partners


 * 2015 Nominated for Relentlessly improving and innovating for patient safety


 * 2016 Highly commended for Relentlessly improving and innovating for patient safety

He has been selected for Bangladeshi Who’s Who and also for Bangladesh power 100 as one of the top 5 British Bangladeshi innovators in the UK. He has also been selected for Asian Who's Who.
 * 2017 Nominated for Relentlessly improving and innovating for patient safety

Teaching

Shafi is the Associate Dean for Barts and The London undergraduate medical students at The Royal London Hospital and is the module lead for surgery in year 3 and year 5. 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

Royal College of Surgeons of England

Shafi was elected onto the prestigious council of the Royal College of surgeons of England in 2013 and is its youngest current member. He has numerous roles and leads the International Surgical Training Programme. He was part of the Cancer 2020 5 Year Forward View Task force 2015 He is a member of the court of examiners and is an international convenor of the MRCS for Bangladesh

Technology and Innovation

Shafi has been working on new technologies enhancing surgical education globally.

His company Virtual Medics has developed the use of wearable technology in education and clinical practice. This has been an exciting and cutting edge project that is world leading and has allowed the development of a web-placed platform to stream live and interactive teaching. They have recently released a global surgical curriculum

In May 2014 using Google Glass, he performed and streamed a live interactive operation to 14000 students and trainees across 132 countries and 1100 cities which was well publicised in over 300 online/newspaper articles and made international news headlines.

He is the cofounder of medical realities an innovative group offering surgical training products, specialising in virtual reality, augmented reality and serious games. He is a pioneer in developing virtual reality for surgical training. On April 14th 2015 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. This was viewed by 55000 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, Press TV

His work has been featured on Wired The Guardian  The Telegraph ABC news CNET The Verge The Huffington post Tech China

On 9th December 2016 he performed the words first live operation using Snapchat Spectacles where he trained 200 medical students and surgical trainees which was covered by Time magazine

He is a Non Executive Director of Medic creations

Personal life

He is married to Dr Farzana Hussain a General Practitioner and has two children Usmaan and Zarina and lives in London. He has 3 siblings Shamim Ahmed, Khatun Sapnara and Jami Ahmed

International speaker

Shafi is an international keynote speaker and is a faculty at exponential medicine, Singularity University. He as spoken at many international conferences including TEDx Barts health, Wired Health, Exponential medicine ,Royal Society of Medicine Innovation Summit , Digital Health Summer Summit MedTech Forum Europe CopenX Innovation showcase Dublin Webit Health 2.0

He recently chaired and was on the editorial board of the GIANT (Global Innovation and New Technologies) Health Event in London which involved 235 speakers, start ups and an innovation showcase.

Keynotes