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Current NHS consultant posts held

Professor and Chair of Urology
Imperial College London, UK

Consultant Urological Surgeon
Imperial College London NHS Trust, London, UK

Research interests

Prostate diagnosis using multi-parametric MRI and biomarkers.

Detection of prostate cancer using MRI and targeted/image-fusion biopsies

Minimally invasive therapies HIFU and cryotherapy treatments

Active surveillance of prostate cancer

Treating benign symptomatic prostate enlargement (Rezum, laser, TURP)

Personal interests

Head of PRISM (Prostate Research in Imaging, Surgery and Methodology), Imperial College London

Chair, Localised Disease Sub-Group of the NCRI Prostate CSG

Member, NCRI Prostate CSG

Prostate Lead Member, NCRI Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis Group

European Urology, Editorial Board

BJU Int., Consulting Editor in Imaging

Awards received

First prize, Innovation Award, BMJ Awards, 2015

First Prize, Innovation in Acute Sector, Health Services Journal Awards, 2015

Visiting Professor
UCLA
Cornell
Tokyo

Prizes
EAU 2009/2012
All Parliamentary Group (Medical Research)
Markowitz Prize (Outstanding Registrar)
Charles Clark Memorial
BAUS Oncology First
First Prize St Thomas’s MRCS Course
William Osler Prize (Oxford)
Worshipful Company of Cutlers’ Scholarship (Oxford)

Publications

Publications

Full publication list can be found summarised at http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=xVnw-_MAAAAJ&hl=en

Key papers

Ahmed HU, El-Shater Bosaily A, Brown LC, Gabe R, Kaplan R, Parmar MK,
Collaco-Moraes Y, Ward K, Hindley RG, Freeman A, Kirkham AP, Oldroyd R, Parker C,
Emberton M; PROMIS study group.. Diagnostic accuracy of multi-parametric MRI and
TRUS biopsy in prostate cancer (PROMIS): a paired validating confirmatory study.
Lancet. 2017 Jan 19. pii: S0140-6736(16)32401-1. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32401-1. [Epub ahead of print]Ahmed HU. The index lesion and the origin of prostate cancer. N Engl J Med. 2009;361(17):1704-6.

Ahmed HU, Hindley RG, Dickinson L, Freeman A, Kirkham AP, Sahu M, Scott R, Allen C, Van der Meulen J, Emberton M. Focal therapy for localised unifocal and multifocal prostate cancer: a prospective development study. Lancet Oncol. 2012;13(6):622-32.

Ahmed HU, Arya M, Freeman A, Emberton M. Do low-grade and low-volume prostate cancers bear the hallmarks of malignancy? Lancet Oncol. 2012;13(11):e509-17.

Wilt T, Ahmed HU. Screening and treatment of localised prostate cancer. Clinical Review. BMJ 2013;346:f325

Book Editor

Interventional Techniques in Uro-Oncology
Publishers: Wiley-Blackwell.
Editors: Hashim U Ahmed (Lead), Manit Arya, Peter Scardino, Mark Emberton.

Focal Therapy in Prostate Cancer
Publishers: Wiley-Blackwell.
Editors: Hashim U Ahmed (Lead), Manit Arya, Peter Scardino, Mark Emberton

Courses offered to GPs

Prostate Cancer Screening

Prostate Cancer Diagnosis using MRI and ultrasound, as well as targeted and image-fusion biopsies

Prostate Cancer Treatment for localised disease such as HIFU, cryotherapy, focal therapy and active surveillance

Management of BPH/LUTS, minimally invasive therapies such as TURP, laser, Rezum, new research techniques