Dr. Ahmad completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Englewood, New Jersey and then went on to an Endocrinology fellowship at Harbour-UCLA. His special focus is the diagnosis, and medical treatment of thyroid dysfunction, nodules, and cancer. He was also an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Medicine.

Dr. Ahmad Is ECNU certified, a professional certification awarded to Endocrinologists who have expertise in thyroid ultrasounds, and procedures. Dr. Ahmad also has performed the first radiofrequency ablation (RFA) on a Toxic Thyroid Nodule (hyperfunctioning) in the United States.

He has been involved in trying to bring this technique to the USA for over 4 years and has extensively practiced this technique on tissue models. He has now successfully ablated over 150 nodules/Goiters without complications. The first 3 cases were observed by the STARmed team from Korea under the guidance of the pioneer of the RFA technology, Dr. Jung Hwan Baek of Seoul, South Korea.