Dr. Naveed Ahmed

Dr. Naveed Ahmed

, MD

Staff Physician, General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute

Languages
  • English
  • Urdu

Surgeon

Years of Experience

34
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Biography

Dr. Naveed Ahmed, MD, is a Staff Physician in the Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He brings more than twenty-five years of experience in providing high quality care to patients.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Ahmed held several roles at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS, US, including Staff Surgeon and Consultant in General Surgery, Trauma & Critical Care Surgery and Endocrine & Hepatobiliary Surgery. Before that, he served at Cleveland Clinic's Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, Ohio, US, as Co-Director then Director of Surgical Intensive Care where he helped establish the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. He also served as Director, Division of Trauma Services, Chief, Division of General Surgery and Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery.

Dr. Ahmed earned his medical degree at Allama Iqbal Medical Collage of Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. He followed with his Surgical Residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Hospital and Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in New York, New York, US, from 1993 to 1998. He also completed his Fellowship in Surgical Intensive Care there in 1997.

In 2000, he completed his Surgical Residency at Cleveland Clinic's Huron Hospital, where he continued to work as a Staff Surgeon and on the teaching staff until 2009.

Dr. Ahmed is a Diplomate with the American Board of General Surgery and the American Board of Surgical Intensive Care and completed the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Fellowship Program with Cleveland Clinic in 2009 for Kidney and Liver Transplant Surgery.

Dr. Ahmed has been mentoring and teaching medical students and surgical, ENT and anesthesia residents since 2000 and has received multiple teaching accolades and awards. He has participated in multiple studies to improve quality of care for patients, as well as quality of life and training of medical students and surgeons. He has published numerous studies, presented multiple journals and lectured globally.

Dr. Ahmed now lives in Abu Dhabi with his wife and two children.

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Treatments & Services

  • Liver and Pancreatic Surgical Problems
  • Adrenal Glands
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Conditions
  • Complex General Surgical Operations
  • Endocrine Cancer
  • Thyroid Cancer
  • Gastrointestinal Cancer
  • Hepatobiliary Surgery
  • General Surgery
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Education

  • 2008 Fellowship
    2008 - 2009

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, US (Fellow, American Society of Transplant Surgeons; Fellow, Multi-Organ Abdominal Transplant Surgery)

  • 2005 Fellowship
    2005 - 2006

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, US (Surgical Scholar, Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplantation Surgery)

  • 1996 Fellowship
    1996 - 1997

    Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center (Cornell University), Our Lady Of Mercy Medical Center (New York Medical College), New York, New York, US (Fellow, Surgical Critical Care)

  • 1993 Residency
    1993 - 1998

    Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center (Cornell University), Our Lady Of Mercy Medical Center (New York Medical College), New York, New York, US (Intern, General Surgery; Resident, General Surgery)

  • 1991 Residency
    1991 - 1993

    Federal Postgraduate Institute of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan (Surgical Registrar)

  • 1990 Residency
    1990 - 1991

    Services Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan (Surgical House Officer)

  • 1983 Medical School
    1983 - 1989

    Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan (Doctor of Medicine (MD))

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Career Experience

  • 2011
    2011 - 2014

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, US (Consultant Staff, Department of General Surgery)

  • 2011
    2011 - 2015

    University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, US (Staff Surgeon/Consultant, Endocrine, Hepatobiliary & Complex Acute General Surgery)

  • 2009
    2009 - 2011

    University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, US (Staff Surgeon/Consultant, Trauma & Critical Care Surgery/General Surgery)

  • 2006
    2006 - 2009

    Huron Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, East Cleveland, Ohio, US (Chief, Division of General Surgery; Vice Chair, Department of Surgery)

  • 2004
    2004 - 2009

    Huron Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, East Cleveland, Ohio, US (Director, Division of Trauma Surgery)

  • 2002
    2002 - 2004

    Huron Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, East Cleveland, Ohio, US (Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit)

  • 2002
    2002 - 2009

    Huron Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, East Cleveland, Ohio, US (Associate Program Director, General Surgical Residency)

  • 2001
    2001 - 2002

    Huron Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, East Cleveland, Ohio, US (Co-Director, Surgical Instensive Care Unit)

  • 2000
    2000 - 2009

    Huron Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, East Cleveland, Ohio, US (Teaching Staff, Department of General Surgery)

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