Dr Shahla Ahmed

 Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, St Mary's Hospital (2007 - present)

 Sub-specialties

• Pain and bleeding in early pregnancy (miscarriage and ectopic)
• Emergency gynaecology
• Ultrasound
• Abnormal smears/colposcopy
• Menopause
• Abnormal periods

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 Teaching posts

• Lead for undergraduate obstetrics and gynaecology, Imperial College at St Mary's Hospital

 Education

• MB BS, University of London (1987)
• MRCOG (1993)
• MD, University of London (2007)

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 Publications and conferences

• Kek LP, Thai AC, Ahmed SM, Ratnam SS. Home glucose monitoring in management of diabetes in pregnancy in Singapore. Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore 1991; 19 (4): 467 - 472.
• Kek LP, Thai AC, Ahmed SM, Joseph R, Ratnam SS. Management of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy using home glucose monitoring: 3 years’ experience (1992). Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolism 1992; 3 (suppl 2): 27 - 29
• Raman S, Ahmed SM. Temperature drop in normal term new-born infants born at the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. Aust. NZ J Obstet Gynaecol 1992; 332:117.
• Obstetric outcome with increasing maternal age. Viegas OAC, Leong WP, Ahmed SM, and Ratnam SS. J Bio Soc Sci 1994; 26: 261 - 267.
• Primary re-anastomosis of colonic perforation in unprepared bowel. Ngoi SS, Ahmed SM, Tekant Y, Chia YW, Rauff A. Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore 1992.
• Advances in the treatment of HIV and AIDS 4: Vertical transmission of HIV. Ahmed SM. The Diplomate 1999; 5 (4): 275 - 279.
• Immunity in the normal female lower genital tract and the impact of HIV infection. Ahmed SM, Al-Doujaily H, V Kitchen, Johnson MA, Poulter LW (2001). Scand J Immunol 2001; Jul-Aug, 54 (1-2): 225 - 238.
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus in pregnancy. Mini-symposium: Infections in pregnancy. Penn ZJ, Ahmed SM. Current Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2000; 10: 190 - 195
• Melanoma and HRT; to prescribe or not to prescribe. Durvasula R, Ahmed SM, Vashisht A, Studd JW. Climacteric 2002; 5: 197 - 200.
• The cellular response associated with CIN in HIV-positive and HIV-negative subjects. Ahmed SM, Al-Doujaily H, V Kitchen, Johnson MA, Poulter LW. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 2002, Aug; 56(2): 204 - 211.
• HIV related Gynaecological Malignancies. Ahmed SM . Current Medical Literature - Gynaecological Oncology 2002; 3 (3): 53 - 58.
• Transvaginal sonographic diagnosis of appendicitis in acute pelvic pain. Haider Z, Condous G, Ahmed SM, Bourne T. J Ultrasound Med. 2006 Sep; 25(9):1243-4.
• Gestational sac and embryonic growth are not useful as criteria to define miscarriage: a multicenter observational study. Abdallah Y1, Daemen A, Guha S, Syed S, Naji O, Pexsters A, Kirk E, Stalder C, Gould D, Ahmed S, Bottomley C, Timmerman D, Bourne T. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov;38(5):503-9. doi: 10.1002/uog.10075. Epub 2011 Oct 13.
• Limitations of current definitions of miscarriage using mean gestational sac diameter and crown-rump length measurements: a multicenter observational study. Abdallah Y1, Daemen A, Kirk E, Pexsters A, Naji O, Stalder C, Gould D, Ahmed S, Guha S, Syed S, Bottomley C, Timmerman D, Bourne T. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov;38(5):497-502. doi: 10.1002/uog.10109. Epub 2011 Oct 13
• Appropriate ultrasound case selection and follow up in medical management of miscarriage (MMOM), S Mohan, S Ahmed, S Syed, M Aziz, E Edwards, M Velasco, D Gould. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2011, 38 (Suppl):260-261.
• Racial differences in female urethral morphology and levator hiatal dimensions: An ultrasound study. Derpapas A, Ahmed S, Vijaya G, Digesu GA, Regan L, Fernando R, Khullar V.Neurourol Urodyn. 2011 Dec 20. doi: 10.1002/nau.21181. [Epub ahead of print]
• Intraobserver and interobserver reliability of the three-dimensional ultrasound imaging of femal urethral sphincter using a translabial technique. G Alessandro Digesu, Nishee Calandrini, Alexandros Derpapas, Pasquale Gallo, Shahla Ahmed, Vik Khullar. Int Urogynecol J. Jan 2012. DOI 10.1007/s00192-1669-3.
• Real time visualisation and analysis of internal examinations – seeing the unseen. Alejandro Granados, Niels Hald, Aimee Di Marco, Shahla Ahmed, Naomi Low-Beer, Jenny Higham, Roger Kneebone, and Fernando Bello. P. Golland et al. (Eds.): MICCAI 2014, Part I, LNCS 8673, pp. 617–625, 2014. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
• Imaging in the post-partum period: clinical challenges, normal findings, and common imaging pitfalls. Attor Al-Muzrakchi, Noorulhuda Jawad, Mary Crofton, Shahla Ahmed, Elizabeth Dick, Wladyslaw Gedroyc, Nishat Bharwani. Abdominal Radiology 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s00261-017-1090-y
• 'Standardizing the bimanual vaginal examination through creating a cognitive task analysis'. International journal of obstetrics and gynaecology. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.12260/abstract

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 Professional membership

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
• British Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (BSCCP)