Jahangir (Jay) Ahmed is an experienced and highly regarded consultant in ENT, specialising in Head & Neck, Laryngology and Thyroid surgery at Barts-Health and UCLH NHS trusts. He is the current lead clinician for ENT at The Royal London Hospital, and a core member of the regional head and neck cancer and Thyroid MDTs.

Mr. Ahmed was educated at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College School of Medicine, graduating in 2001 with the Gold medal in Pathology. He also attained an MA in experimental psychology from Cambridge. He was awarded a PhD in molecular oncology (2015) for his work at The Barts Cancer Institute on harnessing viruses for immuno-therapy of cancer.

He completed higher surgical ENT training in London teaching hospitals including The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s, Charing Cross, The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. These are internationally recognized centres of excellence and academia, where he gained quality experience in the breadth and depth of ENT.

Mr. Ahmed has a high-volume practice and expertise in the surgical management of head and neck tumours from all subsites including tonsil, tongue, pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), salivary gland and thyroid.

He 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 is one of the few surgeons on the panel designated to perform neck dissection in thyroid cancer patients with advanced disease.

Mr. Ahmed 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.

He has significant experience in managing voice, complex airway and swallowing problems. Uniquely he runs a tertiary level practice in the surgical management of sleep disordered breathing ranging from snoring to severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) refractory to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Indeed, the team’s latest surgical audit has demonstrated tremendous success with 90% of OSA patients on CPAP who were treated by robotic surgery, not needing to use their CPAP machine post operatively.

Mr. Ahmed also performs a significant volume of advanced endoscopic sinus surgery, utilsing advanced technology such as image navigation and is therefore in a unique position to be able to offer safe, state of the art surgical treatment from nasal passage to voice box.

He has a keen research interest in minimally invasive transoral surgery and molecular treatment of cancers. He is a clinical lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He has published over 30 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and over 12 book chapters in respected surgical and basic scientific textbooks. His research and clinical experience are regularly presented at national and international meetings.

Mr. Ahmed is passionate about education. He holds a PGC in Medical education and is education co-lead at Bart’s health; facilitating a training program for North-Thames higher surgical trainees and junior doctors. He is also part of the faculty in a number of London based instructional training courses in ENT. His involvement in academia and teaching means 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 personalized medicine and aims to provide bespoke, individualized treatment plans for his patients. He will be readily accessible throughout their clinical journey and beyond, to ensure as comfortable an experience as possible.

Outside of medical work, Mr Ahmed has an interest in reading history, gym training and duelling with his son on computer games consoles.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Thyroid nodule and thyroid cancer surgery

Head and neck cancer surgery

Laryngology and airway surgery

Surgery for sleep disordered breathing including snoring and obstructive sleep apnea that is resistant to CPAP

Surgery to relieve nasal obstruction

Procedures:

Transoral laser surgery to larynx/ pharynx/tongue/ oesophagus

Endoscopy of the larynx/ pharynx/ oesophagus and biopsy/ excision

Laser tonsillectomy/ palatoplasty

Standard adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy

Palatal repositioning/ reconstruction/ implant/ expansion pharyngoplasty

Sleep nasendoscopy/ drug induced sleep nasendoscopy

Transoral robotic surgery:

Tonsil/ lateral pharynx/ posterior pharynx/ base of tongue/ supraglottis

Salivary gland surgery:

Submandibular gland excision

Parotidectomy

Sublingual gland excision

Ranula excision

Neck surgery:

Lymph node excision biopsy

Selective neck dissection

Modified radical neck dissection

Radical neck dissection

Open/ percutaneous tracheostomy

Neck exploration following trauma

Thyroid Surgery:

Hemithyroidectomy

Total thyroidectomy

Parathyroidectomy

Level 6 neck disseciton

Thyroglossal duct cyst excision

Laryngology and complex airway:

Microlaryngoscopy and excision of benign lesions of the larynx

Microlaryngoscopy and excision of early cancer/ precancer +/- laser

Thyroplasty: injection/ implant/ external

Larynx reconstruction

Laryngotracheal reconstruction

Tracheal reconstruction

Laryngotracheal stent

Management of subglottic/ tracheal stenosis

Botox to larynx

Dilation of larynx and trachea

Complex head and neck cancer surgery and reconstruction:

Laryngectomy/ pharyngectomy for cancer and function

Regional myocutaneous flap reconstruction (e.g. deltopectoral/ pectoralis major)

Split skin graft

Swallowing disorders:

Botox to upper oesophagus

Endoscopic pharyngeal pouch: stapling/ laser/ division

External pharyngeal pouch excision

Cricopharyngeal myotomy: laser/ open

Dilation of pharynx and oesophagus

Repair of tracheal/ pharyngooesophageal defects

General and rhinology (including paediatrics) :

Adenoidectomy

Tonsillectomy

Septoplasty

Turbinate reduction/ laser/ turbinoplasty

Nasal cautery

EUA nose and post nasal space +/- biopsy/ removal of foreign bodies

Advanced functional endoscopic sinus surgery for benign and malignant disease (with and without navigation)

Anterior FESS (uncinectomy, middle meatal antrostomy,

anterior ethmoidectomy)

Posterior FESS (posterior ethmoidectomy, spehenoidectomy)

Sphenoidectomy

Frontal sinus procedures including balloon sinuplasty,

Draf’s 1 to 3 (modified endoscopic lothrop)

CSF leak repairs

Balloon sinuplasty

Manipulation of fractured nose

Rhinoplasty for trauma/ nasal blockage

Examination under anaesthetic of ears and suction clearance/

biopsy/ removal of foreign bodies

Myringotomy and Grommet/ T tube insertion

Type 1 tympanoplasty/ myringoplasty

Snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea that is not responsive to CPAP

Head and neck cancer surgery: transoral laser and robotic assisted resections, lymph node biopsy, neck dissection;

Thyroid surgery: hemi/ total thyroidectomy, thyroglossal duct cyst excision;

Salivary gland conditions (parotid, submandibular, sublingual gland and ranula excision);

Laryngology, complex airway and swallowing disorders in adults: laser excision of benign and laryngeal lesions, reconstruction of paralysed vocal fold, botox injection, laryngotracheoplasty, endoscopic and external surgery for pharyngeal pouch and pharyngo-oesophageal narrowing;

Rhinology. Management of allergy, sinusitis, nasal polyps, nose bleeds and nasal tumours: septal and turbinate surgery, advanced functional endoscopic sinus surgery, balloon sinuplasty, correction of the consequences of nasal trauma including rhinoplasty;

General ENT in adults and children: adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, management of hearing loss, balance (vertigo) disorders, tinnitus, clearance of ear wax/ ear infections, eustachian tube dysfunction, treatment of glue ear with myringotomy and grommets.