Dr Imran Ahmad
Consultant Anaesthetist Deputy Clinical Director of Theatres, Anaesthesia & Perioperative medicine (TAP)
Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Imran Ahmad Biography:
I am a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS
Foundation Trust, London, UK, where I am the Deputy Clinical Director
for Theatres, Anaesthesia and Perioperative medicine, having been the
clinical lead at Guy’s hospital for 4 years.
I have a specialist interest in difficult airway management and I am the
clinical lead for airway management at the Trust and was the education
lead for the Guy’s advanced airway fellowship for over 10 years.
I have recently been appointed as President of the Difficult Airway
Society (DAS) UK, having been the Honorary Secretary for the past
three years. I am also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at King’s College
London and Course Director for the Guy’s Airway Management Course.
I have over 2000 citations and 100 peer reviewed publications which
include three DAS guidelines (2015 DAS intubation guidelines, 2020
DAS ATI guidelines and 2021 DAS post thyroidectomy haematoma
guidelines) and the Anaesthesia paper of the year 2020 IntubateCOVID
study.
I have also been an invited contributing author to numerous airway
management books, including Hagberg & Benumhof’s Airway
Management book, Core Topics in Airway management and Virtual
Endoscopy and 3D reconstructions in the airways.
As a result of my academic and clinical work, I am regularly invited to
speak at national and international conferences, this has enabled me to
travel to six contintents across the world, I await my invitation to speak
in Antartica!
This year, I have had a number of innovative projects shortlisted for the
finals of the national BMJ Awards 2021 and Nursing Times Awards
2021 for my work on developing and delivering the High Intensity
Theatre (HIT) list project at my hospital.
My clinical interests include anaesthesia for airway, ENT, orthopaedic,
urology, gynaecology, spinal, general, plastic and transplant surgery.
I also run many multidisciplinary courses across various platforms,
including the Guy’s airway management course, the last one of which
had over 20,000 delegates register.
