Ahmed is a consultant neurosurgeon who specialises in complex spinal surgery and is the Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery at Queens Hospital, London. In addition to this he is the NHS England North East London & Essex Spinal Research Lead. He has a busy practice and sees NHS patients at Queens Hospital, Barking Havering Redbridge University Trust and private patients in London. He has completed the Sir Hugh Cairns combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical complex spinal fellowship at the Royal London Hospital. Prior to this he was an academic trainee in Wessex and held the Jason Brice Fellowship in Neurosurgical research during which he spent a year at the Universitätklinikum Bonn, Germany. He was awarded a doctorate (D.Phil. Oxon) in 2005 from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology unit at the Univerisity of Oxford where he was awarded numerous prizes and scholarships. He completed his medical training in London at St. Georges Hospital Medical School.