Ahmed Alani is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon. In addition to being a founder member of colonoscopy Scotland, he also works in the NHS at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and is and an honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Glasgow University.
Mr Alani specialises in the robotic and laparoscopic management of colon and rectal conditions including bowel cancer and polyps, inflammatory bowel disease, faecal incontinence, prolapse, piles – haemorrhoids and hernia surgery. He also has been at the forefront in introducing Robotic Assisted Surgery for Colorectal cancer in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

He graduated with honours in 1994 and went on to do his early surgical training in Ireland and subsequently moved to Glasgow where he completed his surgical training. During this time, he carried out clinical research and was awarded an MD higher degree from Glasgow University.

Ahmed specializes in modern colonoscopy and performs more than 200 colonoscopies/year. He performs bowel screening colonoscopy in the NHS and has a particular interest in diagnostic colonoscopy, bowel screening and therapeutic colonoscopy such as removing complex polyps etc.. He is also an expert in minimally invasive techniques having undertaken an Ethicon fellowship in advanced laparoscopic colorectal surgery. He is also one of the first surgeons in Scotland to develop a robotic colorectal cancer surgery. Having led the Robotic Colorectal programme at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow since its establishment in 2021.