Named Top 20 Global Digital Health Influencers

Professor Shafi Ahmed is a world renowned, multi award winning surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur. He is a 3x TEDx speaker and is faculty at Singularity University. He has delivered over 250 keynotes in 30 countries.

​After studying  medicine at Kings College Hospital Medical School London, he completed his surgical training in London. He is currently a Laparoscopic Colorectal surgeon specialising in colorectal cancer at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals.

He has received multiple Professorships and Honorary doctorates and was a Nobel Peace prize nominee in 2020 for his humanitarian work in conflict zones.

Shafi is currently a member of the NHS Assembly advising on the NHS long term plan and has previously been an advisor to the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Health. He is the Vodafone Connected Health 5G Ambassador for the UK.

​His 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.

Disrupting the traditional medical school curriculum by launching the Barts X Medicine Programme, Shafi has embedded future technologies and entrepreneurship into the medical school. He is also chairman and a co-founder of the Global Innovation and New Technologies conference in London and Chair of WEBIT Health, Bulgaria.

As an advocate for equality and a passion for humanitarian projects, he recently launched the Shafi Ahmed Foundation International. This foundation aims to provide relief and aid to those in need whilst promoting access to medical training.