Prof. Dr. Shafi Ahmed
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How AR&VR in surgery can save your life
Co-Founder, Medical Director
Medical Advisor
I am a surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur, and 3x TEDx speaker and faculty at Singularity University. I delivered over 250 keynotes in 30 countries and my PhD thesis was on colorectal cancer genetics and I have been awarded with 4 honorary PhD’s. I am a cancer surgeon at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals and have 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, I was awarded the Silver Scalpel award in 2015 as the best national trainer in surgery by the Association of Surgeons in Training. I am currently serving as an elected member of council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England where I am the Director of the International Surgical Training Programme. I am an honorary visiting professor at The University of Bradford where I delivered the Cantor Lecture of Technology in 2017 and the public lecture to open the Digital Health Enterprise Zone. In 2017, I was the top British Asian star in Tech and received this award from HRH Duke of York. In 2018, I was awarded The Future NHS award by the Members of Parliament.
My mission is to merge the world of medicine, global education, and virtual and augmented reality to democratise and scale surgical education to make it affordable and accessible to everyone using the power of connectivity to allow equitable surgical care. I co-founded Medical Realties which has released the world's first VR Interactive Surgical Training. I am also a non-executive director of Medic Bleep, a communications platform for healthcare professionals and GPDQ, an online medical platform. I am an advisor for governments and blue chip companies working in Pharma, Digital Health, Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Blockchain. I recently disrupted the traditional medical school curriculum by launching the Barts X Medicine Programme which has embedded future technologies and entrepreneurship into the medical school. I am also chairman and a co-founder of the Global Innovation and New Technologies conference in London and Chair of WEBIT Health, Bulgaria. I have recently been appointed as CEO of SAMD University Hospital in Bolivia, the first Digital Hospital in South America.
My mission is to merge the world of medicine, global education, and virtual and augmented reality to democratise and scale surgical education to make it affordable and accessible to everyone using the power of connectivity to allow equitable surgical care. I co-founded Medical Realties which has released the world's first VR Interactive Surgical Training. I am also a non-executive director of Medic Bleep, a communications platform for healthcare professionals and GPDQ, an online medical platform. I am an advisor for governments and blue chip companies working in Pharma, Digital Health, Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Blockchain. I recently disrupted the traditional medical school curriculum by launching the Barts X Medicine Programme which has embedded future technologies and entrepreneurship into the medical school. I am also chairman and a co-founder of the Global Innovation and New Technologies conference in London and Chair of WEBIT Health, Bulgaria. I have recently been appointed as CEO of SAMD University Hospital in Bolivia, the first Digital Hospital in South America.
