Dr Ibrar Ahmed
MBChB MRCP MRCGP PhD Dip. Cardiology
Dr Ahmed –MBChB, MRCP, MRCGP, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine), Diploma in Cardiology
Dr Ahmed’s journey into medicine began at Birmingham Medical School, part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities. His postgraduate training spanned a wide range of specialties – including General Medicine, Cardiology, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, and Palliative Care – giving him hands-on experience with complex conditions and the ability to offer calm, practical support when it’s needed most.
He has worked alongside world-renowned experts, including Professor Chris Griffiths in Dermatology and Professor Michael Frenneaux in Cardiology. These experiences helped shape his distinctive approach: combining cutting-edge science with compassionate, patient-first care.
After completing the Royal College of Physicians exams (MRCP), Dr Ahmed went on to earn a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine, placing him among a select group of GPs with this advanced academic distinction. His research – focused on advanced pacing techniques and metabolic therapies for heart disease – has been published in leading journals and recognised in the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines. He also holds the MRCGP and a Diploma in Cardiology. Putting him among the most highly qualified GPs in the UK.
But what truly sets Dr Ahmed apart is how he brings all of this together in his work with patients. His philosophy is simple: treat every person as an individual. No rushing, no assumptions – just thoughtful, thorough care that’s tailored to each person’s unique needs and lifestyle.
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At OneMedicine, everything revolves around you. Whether you need regular check-ups, help managing a long-term condition, or a one-off consultation, we’ll take the time to listen and get it right. You can choose how you’d like to connect—face-to-face, by phone, or through a video call – whatever works best for you. We’ve created a calm, relaxed space where you’ll always feel welcome and never feel rushed.
Beyond clinical care, Dr Ahmed is an Examiner for the General Medical Council, assessing doctors from all over the world to ensure they meet UK standards, and is on the selection panel for the University of Birmingham Medical School. He also provides ECG interpretation services for more than 50 NHS GP practices, supporting doctors with expert insights.
At OneMedicine, we’re here to support you on your journey to better health. We’re not just about treating symptoms – we’re about helping you understand your body, feel in control, and live life to the fullest.
More of Dr Ahmeds achievements
Original Scientific Research Publications
Heart Failure
Reduced in vivo skeletal muscle oxygen consumption in patients with chronic heart failure-A study using Near Infrared Spectrophotometry
Abozguia K, Phan TT, Shivu GN, Maher AR, Ahmed I, Wagenmakers A, Frenneaux MP.
Eur J Heart Fail. 2008 Jul;10(7):652-7
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Is Characterized by Dynamic Impairment of Active Relaxation and Contraction of the Left Ventricle on Exercise and Associated with Myocardial Energy Deficiency.
Thanh T. Phan, Khalid Abozguia, Ganesh Nallur Shivu, Gnanadevan Mahadevan, Ibrar Ahmed, Lynne Williams, Girish Dwivedi, Kiran Patel, Paul Steendijk, Houman Ashrafian, Anke Henning, and Michael Frenneaux
JACC. 2009 Jul, 54 (5) 402–409
Hypoxic modulation of exogenous nitrite-induced vasodilation in humans.
Maher AR, Milsom AB, Gunaruwan P, Abozguia K, Ahmed I, Weaver RA, Thomas P, Ashrafian H, Born GV, James PE, Frenneaux MP.
Circulation. 2008 Feb 5;117 (5):670-7
Impact of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure on Pharmacokinetics and Vasomotor Effects of Infused Nitrite.
Maher AR, Arif S, Madhani M, Abozguia K, Ahmed I, Fernandez BO, Feelisch M, O’Sullivan AG, Christopoulos A, Sverdlov AL, Ngo D, Dautov R, James PE, Horowitz JD, Frenneaux MP
Br J Pharmacol. 2013 Jun;169(3):659-70
Potential of metabolic agents as adjunct therapies in heart failure.
Abozguia K, Nallur Shivu G, Phan TT, Maher A, Ahmed I and Frenneaux M.
Future Cardiology September 2007, Vol. 3, No. 5, Pages 525-535
Survey of Heart Failure in General Practice, A West Birmingham Heart Failure Project.
G. Lip, S. Sarwar, I. Ahmed, S. Lee, V. Kapoor, D. Child, I. Fletcher, I. Cox,
G. Beevers.
European Journal of General Practice, Sept 1997 Vol. 3: 85-89
Cardiometabolics
Metabolic Modulator Perhexiline Corrects Energy Deficiency and Improves Exercise Capacity in Symptomatic Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Khalid Abozguia , Perry Elliott, William McKenna, Thanh Trung Phan, Ganesh Nallur-Shivu, Ibrar Ahmed, Abdul R Maher, Kulvinder Kaur, Jenny Taylor, Anke Henning, Houman Ashrafian, Hugh Watkins, Michael Frenneaux
Circulation 2010 Oct 19;122(16):1562-9
(31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure in vivo cardiac energetics in normal myocardium and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Experiences at 3T Shivu GN and Abozguia K, Phan TT, Ahmed I, Henning A, Frenneaux M.
Eur J Radiol 2010 Feb;73(2):255-9
The Heart Metabolism: Pathophysiological Aspects in Ischemia and Heart Failure.
Abozguia K, Shivu GN, Ahmed I, Phan TT, Frenneaux MP.
Curr Pharm Des. 2009;15(8):827-35
Diabetes Mellitus
Relationship Between Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Cardiac Energetics Impairment in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
G. Nallur Shivu, T.T. Phan, K. Abozguia, I. Ahmed, A. Wagenmakers, A. Henning,
P. Narendran, M. Stevens, and M. Frenneaux
Circulation 2010 Mar 16;121(10):1209-15
Heart Pacemaker Therapy
Biventricular pacemaker therapy Improves Exercise Capacity In Patient with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy via augmented diastolic filling on exercise.
Ibrar Ahmed, Brodie Loudon, Khalid Abozguia, Donnie Cameron, Ganesh Shivu Than Phanh, Abdul Maher, Berthold Stegemann, Anthony Chow, Howard Marshall, Peter Nightingale, Francisco Leyva, Vassilios Vassiliou, William J. McKenna, Perry Elliott, Michael P. Frenneaux
Eur J Heart Fail. 2020 July: 22(7): 1263-1272
Link to Dr Ibrar Ahmeds PhD Theses
Studies on the pathophysiological mechanism of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Scientific Published Abstracts
Heart Failure
Reduced In Vivo Oxygen Consumption is independent of oxygen saturation in skeletal muscle of Chronic Heart Failure patients.
Khalid Abozguia, Thanh T Phan, Ganesh Nallur-Shivu, Ibrar Ahmed, Abdul Maher, Anton Wagenmakers, Michael Frenneaux
ESC Heart Failure Congress 2008, Milan, Italy
Early detection of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic patients receiving Trastuzumab for HER-2 breast cancer using tissue Doppler velocity and 2D speckle tracking
K. Abozguia, I. Ahmed, MP. Frenneaux, D. Rea, R. Steeds.
EUROECHO 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
Abnormal diastolic filling during dynamic exercise associated with impaired myocardial high energy phosphate kinetics in patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
T T Phan, K Abozguia, G Nallur Shivu, M Gnanadevan, I Ahmed, L Williams, U Naidoo, R Weaver, M Frenneaux -).
ESC Congress 2008, Munich, Germany
Diastolic Filling Abnormalities During Exercise in Patients with Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction (HfpEF) as measured by Radionuclide Ventriculography
T T Phan, G Nallur Shivu, K Abozguia, G Mahadevan, I Ahmed, S Anderson, L Williams, M Nassimizadeh, R Weaver, M Frenneaux
ESC Heart Failure Congress 2008, Milan, Italy
Insights and Tips for Starting a Clinical Study in the United Kingdom
Abozguia K, Phan TT, Nallur Shivu G, Maher A, Ahmed I and Frenneaux M.
J R Soc Med 2007 Oct; 100(10):469-72
Cardiometabolics
Impaired myocardial energetics is associated with diastolic dysfunction at rest and during exercise in patients with symptomatic non-obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Khalid Abozguia, Thanh Trung Phan, Ganesh Nallur Shivu, Ibrar Ahmed, Abdul Maher, Mohammad Nassimizadeh, Kunal Chudasama, Stefan Neubauer, Perry Elliott, Hugh Watkins and Michael Frenneaux.
American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2008, Chicago, USA
Impaired cardiac energetics in type 1 diabetic patients in the absence of coronary artery disease or heart failure
G. Nallur Shivu, TT. Phan, K. Abozguia, I. Ahmed, R. Weaver, M. Nassimizadeh, A. Wagenmakers, M. Stevens, M. Frenneaux .
ESC Congress 2008, Munich, Germany
Reduced Cardiac Energetics associated with impaired active relaxation during exercise in patients with Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction (HfpEF)
Thanh T. Phan, Ganesh Nallur Shivu, Khalid Abozguia, Mahadevan Gnanadevan, Ibrar Ahmed, Abdul Maher, Rebekah Weaver, Ross Campbell, Kunal Chudasama, Simon Anderson, Mohammad Nassimizadeh, Michael Frenneaux
American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2008, Chicago, USA
Impaired cardiac energetics is associated with a dynamic disturbance of active relaxation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
M. Frenneaux, K. Abozguia, T. Phan, G. Shivu, I. Ahmed, A. Maher, H. Watkins, S. Neubauer, P. Elliott, W. McKenna..
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 23rd-26th January 2008, Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Heart Pacemaker Therapy
Cardiac Resynchronisation therapy in patients with Non-Obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Ibrar Ahmed, Khalid Abozguia, Thanh Phan, Ganesh Nallur-Shivu, Abdul Maher, Berthold Stegemann, Rodolphe Katra, Kiran Patel, Francisco Leyva, John Sanderson, Denis Pellerin, Perry Elliott, Michael Frenneaux.
Heart Rhythm UK 2008
Heart Muscle Disease
Reduced longitudinal and radial strain of the left ventricle in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM): a study using two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging.
K. Abozguia, G. Nallur Shivu, I. Ahmed, TT. Phan, AR. Maher, WJ. Mckenna, PM. Elliott, MP. Frenneaux
ESC Congress 2008, Munich, Germany
Reduced twisting of the left ventricle in patients with symptomatic non- obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM): a study using two- dimensional speckle tracking imaging.
Khalid Abozguia, Ganesh Nallur-Shivu, Ibrar Ahmed, Thanh T Phan, Abdul Maher,
Mohammad Nassimizadeh, Zaheer Yousef, William McKenna, Hugh Watkins, Perry Elliott, Michael Frenneaux
British Cardiac Society (BCS) 2008 Manchester, UK
Case Report Publications
Dermatology
Post-inflammatory Hyperpigmentation in an Asian patient – A dramatic response to Isotretinoin.
S.M.Winhoven, I.Ahmed, C.Owen, J. Lear
Br. J. Dermatology 2005 Feb; 152(2): 368-9
Cardiology
Ventricular Non-Compaction in a Female patient with Nephropathic Cystinosis
Ahmed I, Phan TT, Lipkin GW, Frenneaux M
J Med Case Reports 2009 Jan 29; 3:31
Book Chapter Publications
Oxford University Press
Principles & Practice of Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics
Chapter 15 Ventricular Noncompaction
G. Dwivedi, I. Ahmed, Z.Yousef, M. Frenneaux
International Presentations
American Heart Association
Biventricular Pacemaker Therapy Corrects Dyssynchrony in Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
New Orleans Oral presentation to the American Heart Association
Circulation. 2008;118:S_869
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