Qualifications:
(May 2013) PGC of Medical Education- Manchester University
(October 2012) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians FRCP UK
(September 2009) CCST in Renal Medicine and General Medicine UK
(May 2008) MD (Nephrology), University of Sheffield, UK
(December 2006) MD (General Medicine)- Ain Shams University
(July 2004) Member of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP London
(May 2000) Master in GIM (MSc) Ain Shams University
(Dec 1995) MB BCh (Hons)- Ain Shams University- Cairo
Honorary Titles:
(March 2012) Associate Professor of Renal Medicine -Ain Shams University
(April 2012) Senior Lecturer- Manchester University
(May 2012) Senior Lecturer- Lancaster University
(March 2012) Renal Ambassador for the Global Kidney Academy
(January 2015) Educational Renal ambassador (ISN)
Employment:
(Since 2009)
Consultant Nephrologist
Department of Renal Medicine
Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
A Transplant physician with sub special interest in kidney transplantation; living kidney donation and post transplantation care. Dr Ahmed has also interest in advanced kidney disease and the failing kidney transplant. He is the Lead for living kidney donation at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, also has post-transplant follow up clinics, General Nephrology; Glomerulonephritis, CKD, AKI, Dialysis; Peritoneal dialysis and Haemodialysis clinics.
• Dr Ahmed is the Research Lead for Renal for the North West Coast CRN and sits on the UK National Renal Speciality NHIR committee
• Member of the Transplant Clinical Study Group part of the UK Renal Consortium
• Member of the UK Renal Association International Committee
The Nephrology Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals provides a comprehensive regional service for renal medicine for a catchment population of approximately 1.7 million, one of the biggest Renal Centres in the UK. The Royal Preston Hospital has been designated as a renal hub for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Morecambe Bay. The Directorate comprises central dialysis hub and 7 satellites dialysis unit dialysis. The total RRT population of 600 patients, in excess of 500 Hospital Haemodialysis patients, 100 patients dialyse at home (APD, CAPD, and Home HD). There is a separate CAPD and Home Haemodialysis training facility at the Chorley and South Ribble Hospital unit. The hub unit in Preston provides:-
• Acute dialysis from the catchment area (Blackpool, East Lancashire, Morecambe Bay and South Lakes)
• Plasma exchange
• A 27-bedded nephrology ward at the Royal Preston Hospital site with acute dialysis facility
• Facilities for renal biopsy and its interpretation and access to LM, EM, immunocytochemistry and immunofluorescence.
• Interventional radiology for renal disease and vascular access.
• Vascular access surgery.
• Medical insertion of Dialysis access and PD catheter access
• Training of Junior doctors and trainees in renal and general medicine, also to International fellows and scholars
• The Department undertakes approximately 250 renal biopsies per year (both native and transplant)
• Approximately 85 on average renal transplants/year and also provides referral for combined pancreatic/renal transplants and islet/pancreas only transplant performed at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
• Patients are transferred back to Preston for follow-up 3-4 weeks post transplant with a present transplant stock of 800 patients
• The Lancashire Kidney Unit is recognised centre for training since 2012 by the ISN and ERA
Awards/Fellowships/Prizes/Grants:
• (2000-2002) ISN Fellow at the Sheffield Kidney Institute
• (2001-2002) NKRF-UK Fellow at the Sheffield Kidney Institute
• Prize from the 2nd World Congress of Nephrology Berlin, Germany 2003
• Prize from the 3rd World Congress of Nephrology, Singapore 2005
• Award and sponsorship by the ERA-EDTA for innovating a new course ‘’The Preston Renal Biopsy Course’’ 2012 and 2013
Teaching/Courses/Renal CME /Training/Invited Speaker/Renal Ambassador role:
• I am interested in Medical Education in Nephrology, I supervise overseas clinical fellows (ISN and ERA, others) from developing countries
• I am Educational Renal Ambassador by the ISN and have visited few countries in Eastern Europe, middle East and Centre Asia to teach and train.
• I supervised 10 ISN and ERA Fellows since 2012 from various countries (Egypt, Israel, Sudan, Croatia, Bosnia and Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Nigeria
• I have twined Preston with Tuzla in Bosnia through the ISN SRCP since 2014 and we have achieved progress from Level C to Level A in 2019/2020.
• I organise 3 key annual UK renal courses based on innovation in teaching and education, 2 courses based on hands-on experience and the third is based on practical clinical cases. The Preston Peritoneal Dialysis catheter insertion course since 2018, The Renal Biopsy Courses since 2012 both courses attract delegates from all over the world with nephrologist from 38 countries over 5 continents coming to Preston. The Applied Nephrology Course which is based on interactive applied cases.
• I was Renal Ambassador for the Global Kidney Academy and have visited few countries in the Middle East as clinical tutor and trainer
Educational Renal Ambassador visits for the ISN
March 2019- Almaty, Kazakhstan
October 2017 and September 2019 Sarajevo and Tuzla, Bosnia
October 2014 Damanhour, Egypt
Invited Speaker to:
• Training programme and workshops (CKD, LCC and PD) for Damanhur General Hospital Egypt March 2012 and June 2012
• Invited Speaker at Haemodialysis course- Mansoura Kidney Centre-Egypt 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014
• Invited Speaker-British Society of Geriatrics Harrogate UK December 2012
• Invited Speaker – Dubai Hospital Dubai UAE May 2013
• Invited Speaker- Khorfkan Hospital- El Fujairah UAE May 2013
• Invited Speaker- Police Hospital –El Agoza Cairo June 2013
• Invited Speaker- Police Hospital –Alexandria- Egypt June 2013
• Training programme and workshops (Transplantation) for Damanhur General Hospital Egypt December 2013 and 2014
• Organised 1st Dubai Renal Pathology Course October 2014
• Invited Speaker at The Bosnian Society of Nephrology, Sarajevo April 2015 and October 2017
• ISN Speaker –Transplant Workshop, Cairo University September 2015 and November 2017
• Invited Expert at Cairo Military Hospitals since 2016-2021
• Invited speaker to various hospitals in Saudi Arabia KSA- February 2016
• Invited speaker to the annual Nephrology course- Mansoura Kidney Centre, Egypt- March 2016
• I organised 1st MRCP Nephrology SCE Course outside the UK in Egypt with UK faculty
• I had oral presentation at the ISN SRCP session at the World congress of Nephrology in Mexico April 2017
