Hashim Uddin Ahmed

• 24 years of experience
• Professor and Chair of Urology, Imperial College London (present)
• Consultant Urological Surgeon, Imperial Urology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London (present)
• Consultant Urological Surgeon, The Cromwell Hospital (2014 - present)
• Chair, NCRI Prostate Research Group (2017 to present)
• Chair of NHS England Prostate Expert Group (2018 - 2019)

• HSJ Awards, Acute Sector Innovation (Lead) (2016)
• UCLH Excellence Award - World-class Research (2016)
• CREST NIHR highly commended research team in surgery award (2015)
• BMJ Awards Winner. BMA Innovation Team of the Year - Lead (2015)
• All Parliamentary Group on Medical Research Presentation (2010)
• Markowitz Prize, Most Outstanding Specialist Registrar in Urology, UCL / UCH (2009)
• Charles Clark Memorial Prize, Best Presentation, Pearce Gould Day, UCL (2010)
• BAUS Oncology First Prize for Poster Presentation
• UAE Stockholm Best Poster in Session (2009)
• MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship (2008 - 2010)
• Pelican Cancer Foundation Research Fellowship (2005 - 2008)
• First Prize St Thomas's MRCS Course (2004)
• Best Scientific Abstract, American Paraplegia Society, Annual Meeting (2003)
• William Osler Prize in Medicine, University of Oxford Clinical School (1998)
• Worshipful Company of Cutlers' Scholarship, St Peter's College, Oxford (1995 - 1997)
• HSJ Award Acute Sector Innovation (2019)
• GHP Private Healthcare Awards - Prostate Specialist of the Year 2018
• GHP Private Healthcare Awards - Prostate Specialist of the Year 2019
• Corporate Healthcare Awards America - Prostate Specialist of the Year (UK) 2019

Professor Hashim Ahmed is one of London's leading urological surgeons. Operating from the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and The Cromwell Hospital he is best known for his role in the pioneering of ground-breaking changes regarding how men are diagnosed and treated with prostate cancer as well as the minimally invasive therapy of benign prostate enlargement ( BPH).

He is a leading expert in transperineal targeted and image fusion prostate biopsy as well as focal high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and cryotherapy (cryosurgery). He is one of the top UK surgeons offering Rezum water vapour or steam therapy for enlarged prostates in the UK. He also offers laser TURP (Greenlight laser) and standard TURP according to suitability and patient preference.

Professor Ahmed is dedicated to research for which he has won several prestigious awards and has given numerous lectures on field-related matters. He is renowned for the focal therapy prostate treatments that he provides which offer a less risky alternative to traditional surgery and radiotherapy and he is a global authority on MRI and minimally invasive diagnosis methods. He has carried out hundreds of these procedures and is a renowned international surgeon for HIFU and cryotherapy/cryosurgery.