IMERA.AI welcomes Professor Shafi Ahmed as a senior advisor to the company
IMERA.AI, an award winning start-up developing AI based solutions in medical imaging, is proud to announce and welcome Professor Shafi Ahmed as senior advisor to the company. Professor Ahmed is a multi-award winning surgeon, teacher, futurist and innovator. His extensive expertise and leadership in digital health will be extremely valuable for IMERA in growing up rapidly at global scale.
Prof Ahmed is a colorectal surgeon at royal London Hospital and led the digital health revolution by performing the first live operation using Google Glass in 2014 and first VR surgery in 360 degrees in 2016, both streamed globally to tens of thousands of surgical trainees. He is an adviser in Digital Health Transformation and Innovation at the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi and faculty member at Harvard Medical School for the Leadership in Surgery programme. He is a 3x TEDx and an international keynote speaker and is a faculty at Singularity University. He is chairman and a co-founder of the Global Innovation and New Technologies conference in London and Chair of WEBIT Health, Bulgaria.
Prof Ahmed commented “I am excited to be part of this very promising AI start-up in medical imaging domain, which is led by an excellent team who have clear understanding of building products that can improve the quality of the patient care using advanced AI technology. I am very keen to play an active role in supporting the team to grow the company globally.”
Krishna Boddu, co-founder and CEO of IMERA.AI stated “I am extremely thrilled to have Prof Shafi on board who is a real visionary and driver of change in digital health and I firmly believe that he can trigger and catalyse exponential growth of our company”. Sandesh Lakkol, , co-founder and COO, said “We as team is very excited to have Prof Shafi whose immense energy and passion drives everyone to give our best to our mission.”
IMERA develops advanced AI based products to help the front-line healthcare staff in clinical decision making.