Dr. SK Farid Ahmed

Dr. Ahmed carries out oncoplastic procedures including skin-sparing mastectomy, implant and acellular dermal matrix, LD reconstruction with or without implants, therapeutic mammoplasties, augmentation, reduction, and symmetrisation procedures, and breast conserving surgery with or without wire localisation or radio frequency seed localisation. He works in the number one unit in the whole UK for performing the highest number of cases using one step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) to stage the axilla.

He is a core member of the breast MDT at BHNHST and of TOPS (Thames Valley Oncoplastic Surgery). He has published papers and research outcomes (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Skfarid_Ahmed/publications) and presented at EBCC on SNB and OSNA. He is a faculty member for breast surgery courses run by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a co-investigator for both the POSNOC trial in the UK and the LORIS trial studying low-risk DCIS to avoid surgery.

Teaching and training is his passion, and he has worked in the Oxford deanery (HETV) as a Tutor and member of the School of Surgery for a number of years. He is also a member of the RCSEng professional affairs board (South Central). He served as Deputy Chair of one of the branches of practice of the British Medical Association, and as Chair of Strategy, Policy and Procedure, engaging actively with the GMC, Health Education England, NHS Employers, and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.