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Professor Shafi Ahmed is a multi award winning surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur. He is a faculty at Singularity University, US.

He is a laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgeon at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals and has been awarded the accolade of the most watched surgeon in human history. He was awarded the Silver Scalpel award and he is currently serving as an elected member of council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

In 2018 he was shortlisted by MP’s for the Future NHS award for NHS70. He is one of the top 20 global influencers in Digital Health and Virtual Reality and has a large social media following.

Shafi made world headline news in 2014 by streaming a live operation using Google Glass to 14,000 students and trainees across 132 countries. On April 14th, 2016 he performed the world’s first virtual reality operation which was watched by 55,000 people in 140 countries, and reached 4.6 million on Twitter. In December 2016 he used the Snapchat spectacles to records and teach surgery across the globe which has had over 100 000 downloads and viewed by over 2 million people and reached 54 million people on Twitter.