Shazad Ashraf is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Clinical Director of Research and Development at University Hospitals Birmingham. He is also Honorary Professor of Surgical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor of Digital Health at Birmingham City University.

His work focuses on the development, clinical evaluation and responsible implementation of artificial intelligence, surgical technologies and digital diagnostic systems to improve patient safety, healthcare efficiency and clinical outcomes.

He leads and contributes to several major collaborative programmes, including COBIx, a national NHS study evaluating AI-assisted digital pathology, and TEMSET-24K, a large-scale surgical video dataset developed to support the training and validation of surgical AI models. He also co-developed RAPTOR, an AI-enabled triage and pathway-optimisation platform presented at MICCAI, supporting the prioritisation and management of patients across colorectal cancer pathways.

Shazad completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford and subsequently held an Academic Clinical Lectureship within the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, where his research focused on antibody engineering and its translation into clinical practice.

As a Birmingham Health Partners Fellow and NHS Responsible AI Champion, he works across the NHS, academia and industry to advance the ethical, secure, clinically effective and scalable adoption of artificial intelligence within healthcare.

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon & Clinical Director of Research and Development, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust