Maria Ahmed

Maria Ahmed is an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College London, affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine. She concurrently serves on NHS England's Primary Care Patient Safety Expert Group, as an Education Associate with the General Medical Council (GMC), and as a Trustee for the Clinical Human Factors Group. Her roles include combining clinical training in General Practice with academic research as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) and GP Specialty Trainee.

Education: MBChB (Honours Medical degree) and Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester (via a Health Foundation Student Research Fellowship), followed by a PhD from Imperial College London (2013) for her thesis "Embedding Patient Safety into Postgraduate Medical Education".

Research focuses on patient safety, quality improvement, medical education policy, and qualitative methods. Notable projects include "Operation Debrief" (improving surgical debriefing) and "Lessons Learnt: Building a Safer Foundation", engaging 3,000+ trainees and 300 senior doctors. Her work has garnered prestigious awards and extensive dissemination via peer-reviewed publications and presentations.

Previous roles include Clinical Advisor to BUPA and WHO Patient Safety, Strategic Advisory Board member at BMJ Quality, and consultancy with Medical Education England. She also contributed to the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) Trainee Steering Group.

Labs/Teams: Active in Imperial College's Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ).