Professor Hashim Ahmed

Professor Hashim Ahmed is currently Chair of Urology at Imperial College London. Hashim is an internationally renowned expert in prostate cancer diagnosis, imaging and biopsy as well as minimally invasive therapies for prostate cancer such as HIFU and cryotherapy either whole-gland or focal therapy for primary prostate cancer or radiorecurrent disease. He has taught dozens of surgeons in these techniques in the UK and around the world and given numerous invited international lectures in this area. He has an extensive research portfolio with about 6M in grant income as a principal applicant and co-applicant to a research programme of approximately 14M. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in areas that have led to key changes in the way we diagnose and treat men with localised prostate cancer. He currently holds a 2.1M Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellowship. Hashim qualified from the University of Oxford where he attended St Peters College and Linacre College. Whilst he was a student he was awarded the William Osler Prize in Medicine. He then held house office posts in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and University Hospitals Manchester before returning to Oxford for an Anatomy Prosector post. Hashim then held senior house jobs in surgery on the Royal Free Hospital, London rotation followed by specialist registrar posts at West Middlesex Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital/Imperial College, University College Hospital and Watford General Hospital as part of the Imperial College Urology Rotation. He was a Pelican Cancer Foundation Research Fellow followed by a MRC Clinician Research Training fellowship at University College London at which time a number of imaging and focal therapy trials were started. His research interests are in Health Technology Evaluation.

PSA testing, Prostate MRI, Prostate biopsy, Image fusion prostate biopsy, Targeted prostate biopsy, Transperineal prostate biopsy, Active surveillance of prostate cancer, HIFU and cryotherapy/cryosurgery for prostate cancer, Focal therapy of prostate cancer, Salvage focal therapy for recurrent prostate cancer, Rezum for enlarged prostates, Steam treatment for enlarged prostate, laser for enlarged prostate