Mr Tariq Ahmad

Mr Ahmad is an award-winning plastic & cosmetic surgeon with over twenty years’ experience in the field of medical aesthetics and cosmetic surgery. Mr Ahmad works as a Consultant in the NHS but also runs a large private practice and of course is the Lead Surgeon & Director for his CQC-approved medical  aesthetics and cosmetic surgery clinic, Cambridge Clear Beauty. Renowned for his artistic skills, his philosophy has always been to ensure a subtle and natural enhancement of one’s own natural, inner beauty aided by an artistic eye and a compassionate, understanding bedside manner.

Mr Ahmad studied medicine at Oxford & Cambridge; after medical qualification he spent some time as a teacher in anatomy at Cambridge before undertaking general surgery training for the FRCS qualification, thereafter progressing to specialise in plastic  & reconstructive surgery. He also spent some time in research at the world-renowned Medical Research Council in Cambridge.

Mr Ahmad trained in the sub-specialty of ear reconstruction as well cleft lip & palate surgery in Cambridge, Edinburgh & Great Ormond Street Hospitals as well as visiting and training in several units abroad.

He was appointed to Consultant in 1997 originally in Edinburgh, his wide breadth of training allowing him to undertake the treatment of head and neck cancer, breast reconstruction, hand surgery and skin laser, as well as paediatric and in particular, cleft lip and palate. Whilst in Scotland he was a Clinical Director (Consultant with Administrative Responsibility) for five years; he was intimately involved in helping to develop CLEFTSiS, the Cleft Lip & Palate Network service in Scotland.

In 2003, Mr Ahmad was head hunted to join the Regional Cleft Lip & Palate Network & Team based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge as a primary surgeon; he coined the name for the new network – Cleft.Net.East. Amongst many roles he was the Student Director in plastic surgery for clinical students at Cambridge and took many students and junior surgeons through projects to fruition; several winning national awards.

He continues to teach nationally and internationally; he was the convenor and one of the Faculty Leads and helped to organise the BAPRAS Advanced Educational Courses in paediatric and cleft surgery for 2014 & 2018. (British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons). He has also been on the Faculty for the ‘Face Eyes Nose’ international conference over the last four years. These are high level educational courses with invited speakers from all over the world. He has lectured widely on the relationship between art and surgery, and indeed has had his hand-drawn operation notes exhibited at a number of museums in the UK. Mr Ahmad continues this artistic side in helping to organise the ‘Sculpture for Surgeons’ course in London; he runs a ‘Drawing for Surgeons’ day alongside the sculpture course and indeed on of the previous participants went on to be a finalist in the BBC Portrait Artist of the Year in 2016.