Muneeb Ahmed, MD, assumes new Cancer Radiology Leadership Roles at Dana-Farber and BIDMC

As part of the Dana-Farber Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Collaboration, Muneeb Ahmed, MD, FSIR, has been named Chief of a new Division of Cancer Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Chair of the Department of Imaging at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Ahmed is an accomplished clinician, researcher, and educator with internationally recognized expertise in interventional radiology treatments for cancer, including image-guided tumor ablation and embolization. Since 2014, he has served as Chief of the Division of Interventional Radiology and Vice Chair of Radiology at BIDMC. He is also the Miriam H. Stoneman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Ahmed is the immediate Past President of the Society of Interventional Oncology and a former member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. His clinical and research interests focus on tumor ablation-related biology, clinical interventional oncology outcomes in liver cancers, portal hypertension, and transplant interventions.

He is the author of more than 180 original research papers, societal standards, chapters, and invited reviews, and has received more than $8 million in grant funding as a principal investigator, including from The National Institutes of Health and numerous society- and industry-funded grants.

He is also the recipient of multiple national and international awards, including the Society of Interventional Radiology’s prestigious Gary J. Becker Young Investigator Award, and the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology’s Editor’s Award for Distinguished Research Study four separate times. Based on his expertise, he has lectured widely at national and international conferences in the field of interventional oncology.

Dr. Ahmed earned his medical degree from The Aga Khan University Hospital (Pakistan), and holds a Master of Science degree from Harvard Medical School. He joined BIDMC in 2000 as a Cancer Radiology Research Fellow and completed his residency training at the medical center, including serving as Chief Resident. He then completed his fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine before returning to BIDMC as faculty within Interventional Radiology. Dr. Ahmed is board-certified in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology.