Professor Hashim Ahmed

Dr Hashim Ahmed 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 radio-recurrent disease.

Dr Ahmed qualified in 2001 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 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and University Hospitals Manchester before returning to Oxford for an Anatomy Prosection 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.

Dr Ahmed has taught dozens of surgeons in these techniques in the UK and around the world whilst also giving numerous invited lectures in this area and 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.

As well as this Dr Ahmed has been visiting professor to UCLA, Tokyo, Weill-Cornell and Detroit universities and has given over 30 plenary lectures at national and international urology, oncology and imaging meetings.

• MRI image-fusion prostate biopsies and pioneered the use of local anaesthetic and sedation targeted transperineal biopsies
• HIFU treatment for minimally-invasive treatment of prostate cancer
• Cryotherapy for minimally-invasive treatment of prostate cancer

• Prostate cancer screening
• Multi-parametric prostate MRI
• MRI targeted transperineal image-fusion prostate biopsy
• Focal HIFU and Focal Cryotherapy
• Treatments for enlarged prostate (BPH)