An award-winning clinician and researcher.
Professor Ahmed is an internationally renowned expert in prostate cancer and prostate enlargement, at the forefront of diagnosing and treating men with effective minimally invasive therapies that have fewer side-effects.
Professor Hashim Ahmed is an award-winning clinician and researcher having being recognised with prestigious awards from the British Medical Journal, Health Services Journal and the UK National Institute of Health Research. He has also been Visiting Professor at UCLA in California, Weill Cornell in New York City and Tokyo Medical School.
Driven by a strong desire to reduce the harms of tests and treatments that are used in medical care wherever possible, Professor Ahmed is involved in pioneering changes to clinical care through research and innovation as well as being at the forefront in delivering high quality clinical and surgical care. For an in-depth interview and spotlight section on Professor Ahmed by Prostate Cancer UK, see their spotlight on Professor Hash Ahmed.
Professor Ahmed has performed thousands of MRI guided image-fusion transperineal biopsies and over a thousand HIFU or cryotherapy treatments for prostate cancer. He is one of the highest volume cryotherapy HIFU surgeons internationally. He has led research showing the effectiveness of these techniques and continues to innovate. Follow the link, for an in-depth with Professor Ahmed conducting by Grand Rounds in Urology and Prostapedia on Focal Therapy for prostate cancer. He has taught dozens of international urologists in these procedures whilst also giving numerous invited lectures and being part of course faculty around the world in these areas. He offers minimally invasive therapies for the effective treatment of benign enlarged prostates causing urinary symptoms such as laser TURP and steam treatment.
Current Posts
Research Interests
- Prostate diagnosis using multi-parametric MRI and biomarkers
- Detection of prostate cancer using MRI and targeted transperineal image-fusion biopsies
- Minimally invasive therapies HIFU and cryotherapy treatments
- Active surveillance of prostate cancer
- Treating benign symptomatic prostate enlargement (Greenlight laser vapourisation of the prostate, steam or water vapour therapy)
Personal Interests
Qualifications
Awards & Accolades
- British Association of Urological Surgeons - Golden Cystoscopy award - 2024
- Global 100 - Prostate Cancer Specialist of the Year - 2019 - UK
- Corporate America Today - Annual Awards - Prostate Specialist of the Year - 2019 - UK
- Global Health & Pharma - Private Healthcare Awards - Prostate Specialist of the Year - 2019
- HSJ Awards - Acute Sector Innovation of the Year - 2018
- EAU and Fritz Schroder - Foundation Award - Best Research Paper - 2017-2018
- Health Services Journal - Acute Innovation Award - Shortlisted - 2018
- UCLH - Excellence Award - Nomination - 2016
- NIHR - CREST - Highly Commended Research - 2016
- BMJ - Innovation Award - Winner - 2015
- Health Services Journal - Innovation Award - Winner - 2015
- UCLA - Visiting Professor
- Cornell - Visiting Professor
- Tokyo - Visiting Professor
- EAU - 2009/2012
- All Parliamentary Group - Medical Research
- Markowitz Prize - Outstanding Registrar
- Charles Clark Memorial
- BAUS Oncology First
- St Thomas’s - MRCS Course - First Prize