astronomy

Shafi Ahmed

Shafi Ahmed is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shafi Ahmed rather than just read about it. In short: Shafi Ahmed is a chief surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, professor and entrepreneur. Biography Personal life Ahmed lives in London.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Shafi Ahmed is a chief surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, professor and entrepreneur.

Biography

Personal life Ahmed lives in London. He is married to Farzana Hussain, a general practitioner, with whom he has two children.

Early life and education He was born on 26 January 1969 in Sylhet District, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and came to the United Kingdom as a child. Ahmed attended Chadwell Heath High School (now Chadwell Heath Academy) before attending the Redbridge technical college. From 1988 to 1993, he studied medicine at King's College Hospital School of Medicine. As the elected President of the Medical and Dental Society, he helped introduce medical ethics into the curriculum. During his surgical training in London, he undertook a period of research at The Royal London Hospital and the Queen Mary University of London. In 2010, he obtained a PhD with a thesis entitled "The role of microarray profiling in predicting outcome in patients with colorectal cancer". Ahmed has been awarded four honorary PhDs (Honoris Causa) from Udabol University Bolivia, SIISDET Colombia, the University of Peru of Science and Informatics and EXIBED, Spain. In 2017, he was appointed as an honorary professor at The University of Bradford and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine in 2019. In 2020 he was awarded the Spinoza Honorary professorship at the University of Amsterdam.

Career Ahmed is a specialist advisor to the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Health to help deliver innovation and digital health.

Clinical practice Ahmed 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 surgery for primary and recurrent disease as well as multi-visceral resections. 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 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, Ahmed was the lead clinician and multi-disciplinary team lead for colorectal cancer at Barts Health NHS Trust. He was also a CQC specialist advisor in general surgery.

Teaching Ahmed was the Associate Dean for Barts and the London undergraduate medical students at The Royal London Hospital from 2010 to 2019 and was the lead for surgery. 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. He teaches innovation and digital transformation for surgeons at Harvard Medical School and Imperial College London. He is the civilian advisor for the British Armed forces for general surgery.

Royal College of Surgeons of England From 2013 to 2019, Ahmed was elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He had numerous roles and led the International Surgical Training Programme. He was part of the Cancer 2020, 5 Year Forward View Taskforce 2015. He is a member of the court of examiners and is an international convenor of the MRCS for Bangladesh.

NHS

In 2007, Ahmed was appointed as a Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Colorectal surgeon to The Royal London Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. He was chosen to curate the NHS Twitter account from 27 February 2017 to 3 March 2017 and tweeted the world's first live operation via this account. He was the clinical lead for surgery at the NHS Nightingale Hospital at Excel London during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Ahmed performed a live cancer operation at The Royal London Hospital on Channel 5 for the series Operation Live in 2018.

Barts X Medicine Ahmed is the module lead for an innovative new course at Barts and the London Medical School which aims to teach the third year medical students about future medicine and how to generate ideas to improve clinical care. The students are taught by digital health innovators and those involved in Medtech from the UK and US.

Entrepreneurship Ahmed has been working on new technologies to enhance surgical education globally. His online videos have been watched hundreds of thousands of times, earning him the accolade of the most-watched surgeon in human history. He aims to teach surgery and surgical processes to thousands of students at a time using VR technology.

Virtual Medics Ahmed's company Virtual Medics developed the use of wearable technology in education and clinical practice. This has allowed the development of a web-placed platform to stream live and interactive teaching. In May 2014, using Google Glass, he performed and streamed a live operation to 14 thousand students across 132 countries and 1100 cities.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shafi Ahmed

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Shafi Ahmed claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Shafi Ahmed before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shafi Ahmed ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shafi Ahmed

In research: Shafi Ahmed appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shafi Ahmed in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shafi Ahmed is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1969 births, 21st-century British businesspeople, 21st-century British educators, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shafi Ahmed outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Shafi Ahmed in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Shafi Ahmed in simple terms?

Shafi Ahmed is a chief surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, professor and entrepreneur. Biography Personal life Ahmed lives in London.

Why does Shafi Ahmed matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Shafi Ahmed?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Shafi Ahmed.