Mr Jahangir Ahmed

Jahangir (Jay) Ahmed is a consultant specialising in laryngology, head, neck and thyroid surgery who practises at Barts Health and University College Hospitals NHS Trusts. He is the current chair of the head and neck MDT at Barts Health and an integral member of the Barts Thyroid MDT.

He was educated at King's College, Cambridge University where he achieved the Harmer prize for Medicine and obtained an MA in experimental psychology. He completed clinical education at Imperial College, London, graduating with the Gold-medal in Pathology.

His higher specialist training occurred in London’s premiere ENT hospitals, including The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear, Great Ormond Street, St Bartholomews, The Royal London and Charing Cross Hospitals, giving him a broad, high quality ENT training experience. During this time, he was awarded competitive research fellowships from The Welcome Trust, The Barts and London Charity and was a Royal College of Surgeons Academic research fellow.  These culminated in a PhD from The Barts Cancer Institute, where he genetically optimised Vaccinia viruses for immune-therapeutic cancer treatment.

Mr Ahmed has a high-volume practice and expertise in the surgical management of voice disorders, complex airway reconstruction and benign and malignant head and neck tumours of all subsites including tonsil, tongue, pharynx, larynx, salivary gland and thyroid. In addition, he has a passion for and runs a unique tertiary referral service for the surgical management of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) refractory to CPAP.

Mr Ahmed is one of the core thyroid surgeons in the Barts Health Thyroid Multidisciplinary team (MDT); this is one of the largest thyroid cancer groups in the UK. He has a high-volume thyroid surgical practice and is one of the few surgeons designated to perform selective neck dissection in thyroid cancer patients with advanced disease.

Mr Ahmed is highly skilled in scarless, through the mouth (transoral, microlaryngoscopic), minimally invasive technology such as laser, robotic and advanced endoscopic sinus surgery; putting him in a unique position to offer safe state of the art surgical treatment from nasal passage to voice box. Indeed, he has one of the largest such transoral robotic practices in the UK, using DaVinci robotic systems to remove tumour or obstructive tissue.

Mr Ahmed runs head and neck “one stop” and “voice” multidisciplinary clinics at Barts Health. There, he also forms part of a dedicated team that is able to offer every modality of treatment for patients suffering with sleep disordered breathing (from snoring to severe OSA), ranging from CPAP to transoral robotic surgery. Indeed, the team’s latest surgical audit has demonstrated tremendous success with 90% of CPAP dependent OSA patients who had robotic surgery, coming off their CPAP post operatively.

Mr Ahmed is passionate about teaching. He holds a PGCert in Medical education. He is education co-lead at Bart’s health; facilitating a training program for North-Thames higher surgical trainees and junior doctors. He is also a member of the faculty in a number of London based instructional training courses in ENT.

Mr Ahmed’s involvement in academia (see below) and teaching ensures he keeps abreast of the latest evidence-based treatment protocols and technology in ENT.

Mr. Ahmed has gained a reputation for providing the highest quality care to every patient he treats. He is a firm believer of personalised medicine and aims to provide bespoke, individualised treatment plans for his patients. He will be readily accessible throughout their clinical journey and beyond, to ensure as comfortable an experience as possible.