PERSON: Qanta Ahmed

Professor

Qanta A. Ahmed is a British-American physician who came to prominence as a doctor specializing in sleep disorders. She has also worked as an author, women’s rights activist, journalist, and public commentator.

Ahmed is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants. She grew up in London, and graduated from the University of Nottingham. She went to New York City for medical training in 1992. Without a US visa to extend her stay, she left to practice in Saudi Arabia for a year. She wrote down her daily experiences as a woman practicing medicine, and published them in a book. In June 2013, Ahmed visited Israel, speaking at universities and research institutes around the country.

Ahmed became a US citizen in 2015, while maintaining her British citizenship. She currently resides in New York City.

Ahmed practiced medicine in the National Guard Health Affairs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She returned to the US in 1996 and practiced at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina and sleep disorders medicine in Garden City at the Winthrop University Sleep Disorders Center.

As of 2011, Ahmed was associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. She has also served as an Honorary Professor at School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, and an Honorary Fellow at the Technion-Israel Institute of Science and Technology in Haifa, Israel. In 2014, she was appointed media spokeswoman for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

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