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Shafi Ahmed

Shafi Ahmed FRCS, MBBS, PhD

Surgery
London, England, United Kingdom

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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 the 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.
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