Dr Haroon Ahmed

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Health and Care Research Wales/ NIHR Fellowship Programme (2020 - 2023)

Project title: Antibiotic treatment and major bleeding in anticoagulant medication users: analysis of health record data to support safer monitoring and prescribing

Biography

Dr Haroon Ahmed is a clinical academic with 19 years' NHS experience. He works as a GP in Cardiff and leads research in infections, antibiotic stewardship, and multimorbidity at the Division of Population Medicine and PRIME Centre Wales. Most of his research involves analysis of linked health data and he works closely with the SAIL databank and uses data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and QResearch.

He works closely with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to get evidence about management of infections into guidance for clinicians. Haroon has held back-to-back Fellowships (Doctoral and Advanced) from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

He is heavily involved in supporting early-career clinical academics, leading the Cardiff Academic Fellows Scheme for GPs and co-leading the Cardiff cohort of the Welsh Clinical Academic Track (WCAT).