Ahmad is the Director of the Genomics Center of Excellence at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Genetics at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE. He completed his doctoral studies in genetics at Dartmouth College, USA followed by a fellowship in molecular diagnostics at Dartmouth Medical School. In 2013, he joined Harvard Medical School, USA, where he completed his clinical molecular genetics fellowship and, in 2015, became board-certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Prior to joining Al Jalila Children’s Hospital, he was a director in the Division of Genomic Diagnostics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and also an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.