Professor of Surgery, Director University of Cincinnati Cancer Center
University of Cincinnati Cancer Center
Syed Ahmad, MD, is the Director of the UC Cancer Center and is Professor of
Surgery at the UC College of Medicine.
Dr. Ahmad graduated from Duke University and then the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1992. He completed his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in 1998. During residency, he also completed a research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. He subsequently completed both a Research Fellowship and a clinical Complex Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston before joining the UC surgical faculty in 2001.
A nationally recognized leader in oncologic surgery for pancreas and hepatobiliary cancers, his research interests include novel translational research for GI malignancies. He has served as the Co-Principal Investigator on three NCI designated cooperative studies (SWOG 1505, Alliance 021101 and 021501). These studies are investigating therapies for resectable and borderline resectable pancreas cancers. He is currently the co-PI on SWOG 2104 investigating adjuvant therapy in pancreas neuroendocrine tumors. He is the co-PI on several NCI funded research grants . He has published over 220 articles and chapters and edited multiple textbooks including Locally Advanced and Borderline Resectable Pancreas Cancer and is co-editing the 9th edition of Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Dr. Ahmad also plays a major role within the Southwest Oncology Group serving on the executive committee and as the Chair of the Surgery Subcommittee. He serves as a reviewer for 15 prestigious clinical and research journals, is Associate Editor for the Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancers and the Deputy Director for the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Ahmad is a member of many prestigious national medical societies, including the American Surgical and Southern Surgical, and has served in leadership roles in many of these societies.