Mr Jahangir Ahmed
ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat), Endocrine Surgery
Profile Summary
Qualifications
MA (Cantab) MBBS FRCS (ORL-HNS) PhD DOHNS PGCMed
Special Interests
Obstructive sleep apnoea, Snoring, Voice disorders, Swallowing disorders, Head and neck cancer, Laser surgery, Robotic surgery, Thyroid lumps, Thyroid cancer, Salivary gland lumps, Tonsil disorders, Neck lumps, Nasal blockage, Nasal allergy, Nasal polyps, Sinusitis, Endoscopic sinus surgery, Ear disorders
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Specialist Treatments
Treatments offered at King Edward VII's Hospital include, but are not limited to:
- Microlaryngoscopy And Laser
- Transoral Laser Resection
- Laryngeal Surgery
- Adenoidectomy And Tonsillectomy
- Transoral Robotic Surgery
- Tongue Base Surgery
- Thyroidectomy
- Exicison Of The Parotid Gland
- Submandibular Gland Excision
- Lymph Node Excision
- Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
- Septoplasty And Turbinate Reduction
- Palatal And Expansion Pharyngeal Surgery
- Myringotomy And Grommet Insertion
- Neck Dissection
My Practice
I have expertise in the surgical management of benign and malignant head and neck tumours / obstructive lesions in all subsites – including tonsil, pharynx, larynx, salivary gland and thyroid – and a super-specialist interest in transoral robotic and laser surgery.
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Professional Biography
Jahangir Ahmed is a respected ENT consultant, specialising in laryngology, head, neck and thyroid surgery. {{ label }}
He was educated at Kings College, Cambridge University where he achieved the Harmer prize for Medicine and attained an MA in experimental psychology. He completed clinical education at Imperial College, London, graduating with the Gold-medal in Pathology.
He completed higher specialist training in major London teaching hospitals, during which 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.
He completed a PhD at 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 benign and malignant head and neck tumours of all subsites including tonsil, pharynx, larynx, salivary gland and thyroid.
He is one of the core thyroid surgeons in the Barts Health Thyroid multi-disciplinary team; this is one of the largest thyroid cancer groups in the UK. He is one of the few surgeons designated to perform selective neck dissection in thyroid cancer patients with advanced disease.
He is skilled in transoral (scarless, through-the-mouth) laser and robotic surgery, with one of the highest-volume transoral robotic surgical practices in the UK, performing over 50 transoral resections of tumour or obstructing tissue per year.
Mr Ahmed has significant experience in managing voice, complex airway and swallowing problems. Uniquely, he runs a tertiary level practice in the surgical management of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) refractory to continuous positive airway pressure at Barts Health, in collaboration with respiratory colleagues who specialise in OSA.
In the NHS, he also maintains a substantial advanced endoscopic sinus surgical practice and is therefore in a unique position to offer high-quality management of conditions affecting the entire upper aero-digestive tract, from nasal cavity to voice box.
He is the current chairman and lead of the Bart’s Head and Neck cancer multi-disciplinary team and has an honorary clinical lectureship at Queen Mary, University of London. He has a keen research interest in minimal access ENT cancer surgery, and molecular and immunotherapy of cancers.
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COVID-19 Specific Projects / Groups
I was part of the Barts tracheostomy multidisciplinary team, coordinating and providing surgical tracheostomy for the large cohort of ventilated COVID-19 patients in Barts Health to help respiratory wean.
I continue to provide a surgical head and neck cancer service during the COVID-19 era, co-ordinated via the UCLH cancer surgical hub.
Career Highlights
My highlights include:
- Graduating with an MA in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge
- Obtaining a PhD in molecular oncology from the Barts Cancer Institute for optimising Vaccinia virus for the purposes of immunotherapy
- My consultant position in head and neck surgery, ENT at Barts Health and UCLH NHS trusts
- Establishing the transoral robotics programme at Barts Health – collaborating with the Barts respiratory team in managing patients with obstructive sleep apnoea refractory to continuous positive airway pressure therapy.
Awards
My awards include:
- The Wellcome Trust – Clinical Research Fellowship, 2012
- Barts and the London Charity Clinical Research Fellowship, 2011
- RCSEng Academic Research Fellowship, 2011
- HCW Vines Prize for pathology, Imperial College, 2000
- Steadman Prize for pathology: Gold, Imperial College, 1999
- Harmer Prize for Medicine, Kings College, Cambridge University, 1996
Memberships
I am a member of ENT-UK and the British Laryngological Association.
Training Positions
I am passionate about teaching. I hold a PGCE in Medical education and am education co-lead at Barts, facilitating a training programme for North Thames higher ENT surgical trainees and junior doctors.
I am also part of the faculty on a number of instructional courses in ENT and head and neck surgery.
Cutting Edge Technologies
I have performed transoral robotic surgery and transoral CO2 laser microsurgery.
Publications
I have published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and have written 12 book chapters in respected scientific and clinical textbooks.
My publications include:
- A new oncolytic Vaccinia virus augments antitumor immune responses to prevent tumor recurrence and metastasis after surgery. J Immunother Cancer. 2020 Mar;8(1).
- Transient Inhibition of PI3Kδ Enhances the Therapeutic Effect of Intravenous Delivery of Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus. Mol Ther. 2020 Feb 28.
- Custom designing laryngoplasty implant using actual size CT scan images on a mobile device. Clin Otolaryngol. 2019 Jan.
- No evidence of cholesteatoma in untreated otitis media with effusion in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2018 Feb.
- Aberrant facial flushing following monobloc fronto-facial distraction. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2015 Oct.
- A marker-free system for highly efficient construction of vaccinia virus vectors using CRISPR Cas9. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2015 Sep 16;2.
- Efficiently editing the Vaccinia virus genome using the CRISPR Cas9 system. J Virol. 2015 Mar 4.
- A vaccinia virus armed with interleukin-10 is a promising therapeutic agent for treatment of murine pancreatic cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Jan 15;21(2).
- MRI brain abnormalities in cochlear implant candidates: How common and how important are they? Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2012 Apr 10.
- Functional endoscopic balloon dilation of sinus ostia for chronic rhinosinusitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. July 2011.
- The extended Sistrunk procedure for the management of thyroglossal duct cysts in children: how we do it. Clin Otolaryngol. 2011 Jun;36(3).
- Impact of long-term nasopharyngeal airway on health-related quality of life of children with obstructive sleep apnea caused by syndromic craniosynostosis. J Craniofac Surg. 2011 Jan;22(1).
- Hearing and ossicular chain preservation in cholesteatoma surgery. J Laryngol Otol. 2011 Feb;125(2).
- Endaural meatoplasty: the Whipps Cross technique. J Laryngol Otol. 2011 Jan;125(1).
- Assessment of the chin in patients undergoing rhinoplasty: what proportion may benefit from chin augmentation? Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010 Feb;142(2).
- The role of the nasopharyngeal airway for OSA in syndromic craniosynostosis. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 19(3):659-663, May 2008.
- Treatment of pyriform fossa sinuses with monopolar diathermy. J Laryngol Otol. 2008 Aug.
- An approach to the management of paroxysmal laryngospasm. Analysis of case series and establishment of a management protocol. J Laryngol Otol. 2008 Jan 122(1).
Chapters I’ve contributed include:
- Chapter entitled ‘Laryngeal Chondrosarcoma’Ahmed, C Al-Yaghchi for ‘Laryngology: a case-based approach’, Eds J Allen, R Nouraei, G Sandhu. Plural publishing. In press.
- Chapter entitled ‘Management of the Airway in Thyroid Disorders’ Ahmed, A Mace for ‘Laryngology: a case-based approach’ Eds J Allen, R Nouraei, G Sandhu. Plural publishing. In press.
- Chapter entitled ‘Diagnosis of allergic fungal rhinosinusitis’ J Ahmed, H saleh; for ‘Landmark Papers in Otolaryngology.’ Oxford University Press.
- Chapter entitled ‘Sublingual or subcutaneous immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis?’. J Ahmed, H saleh; for ‘Landmark Papers in Otolaryngology’. Oxford University Press.
- Chapter entitled ‘Radiological imaging for non-traumatic paediatric ENT conditions’, J Ahmed, C Offiah, Y Bajaj; for ‘Head and Neck Imaging: A Multi-Disciplinary Team Approach’ Springer publishing. In press.
- Online version of Chapter 21: Special Senses: Disorders of the Ear Nose and Throat; Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine 9th edition. J Ahmed, K Ghufoor.
- Chapter entitled ‘Penetrating neck trauma’ for ‘Key clinical topics in Otolaryngology’ edited by Y Bajaj et. al, commissioned by J P Medical Ltd. In Press.
- 3 book chapters for ‘Pocket Tutor ENT’. Eds Bhattacharyya and Patel. J P Medical Ltd. Dec 2011.
- Chapter entitled ‘Pre malignant lesions of the larynx, Ahmed, Ghufoor’ for Volume 4 (Laryngology, ed. A K Bhattacharyya) of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, eds. M. V. Kirtane and C DeSouza. Theime Scientific and Medical Publishers. Dec 2013.
- Chapter entitled ‘The Lister Strain Vaccinia Virus as an anticancer Immunotherapeutic’, J Ahmed, M Yuan, G Alusi, N Lemoine, Y Wang for Gene Therapy of Cancer,3rd edition: Translational Approaches from Preclinical Studies to Clinical Implementation. Eds E C Lattime, S L Gerson. Academic Press Inc. Oct 2013.
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