Dr Syed Ahmed Salahuddin

About

Dr Ahmed Syed Salahudin is presently a Senior Consultant with the Department of Pathology. He sub-specialises in Histopathology and Cytology.

Education and Training

• ​MBBS: Pakistan 
• Diplomate American Board of Pathology (Anatomical & Clinical): USA 
  
• Diplomate American Board of Pathology in Cytopathology: USA 
  
• FRCPA
  
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• ​International Academy of Cytopathology
• College of American Pathologists
  

Publications

Publications

• Ahmed SS, Thike AA, Zhang K, Tan PH.  Clinicopathological Characteristics of Estrogen Receptor Negative, Progesterone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer: Re-evaluating Subsets within this Group. J Clin Pathol. 2016 Sep 9. pii: jclinpath-2016-203847. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2016-203847. [Epub ahead of print]. 
  
• Koh VC1, Lim JC, Thike AA, Cheok PY, Thu MM, Tan VK, Tan BK, Ong KW, Ho GH, Tan WJ, Tan Y, Salahuddin AS, Busmanis I, Chong AP, Iqbal J, Thilagaratnam S, Wong JS, Tan PH.See comment in PubMed Commons below Characteristics and behaviour of screen-detected ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: comparison with symptomatic patients. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 Jul;152(2):293-304. doi: 10.1007/s10549-015-3472-6. Epub 2015 Jun 16.
  
• Cedric Chuan Young Ng, Jing Tan , Choon Kiat Ong, Weng Khong Lim,Vikneswari Rajasegaran, Nur Diyana Md Nasir, Jeffrey Chun Tatt Lim, Aye Aye Thike, Syed Salahuddin Ahmed, Jabed Iqbal, Inny Busmanis, Angela Phek Yoon Chong, Bin Tean Teh, Puay Hoon Tan. MED12 is frequently mutated in breast phyllodes tumours: a study of 112 cases. Journal of Clinical Pathology 2016;69:10 858-865. JCP Online First, published on May 27, 2015 as 10.1136/jclinpath-2015-202896
  
• Jolene Wong, Wei Sean Yong, Aye Aye Thike, Jabed Iqbal,  Syed Salahuddin Ahmed , Gay Hui Ho, Preetha Madhukumar, Benita Kiat Tee Tan, Kong Wee Ong, Puay Hoon Tan. False negative rate for intraoperative sentinel lymph node frozen section in patients with breast cancer: a retrospective analysis of patients in a single Asian institution. J Clin Pathol. 2015;0:1–5. jclinpath-2014-202799 Published Online First: 8 April 2015 doi:10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202799.
  
• Syed Salahuddin Ahmed, Aye Aye Thike, Jabed Iqbal, Wei Sean Yong, Benita Tan, Preetha Madhukumar, Kong Wee Ong, Gay Hui Ho, Chow Yin Wong, Puay Hoon Tan. Sentinel lymph nodes with isolated tumour cells and micrometastases in breast cancer: clinical relevance and prognostic significance 1. J Clin Pathol. 2014 Mar;67(3):243-50.JCP Online First, published on November 11, 2013 as 10.1136/jclinpath-2013-201771.
  
• Syed Salahuddin Ahmed, Jabed Iqbal, Aye Aye Thike, Alvin Soon Tiong Lim, Tse Hui Lim, Sim Leng Tien, Puay Hoon Tan.HER2/neu revisited: quality and interpretive issues J Clin Pathol 2011;64:120-124 doi:10.1136/jcp.2010.085423.
  
• Yozu M, Ahmed SS. Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma associated with Proliferation of Osteoclast-Like Giant Cells – A case report. Accepted for publication. Pakistan medical Journal
  
• Syed A, Baseer A & Ahmed S. Pregnancy Induced hypertension and Antioxidant Vitamins. Ann. Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi Med. & Dent. Coll., 2000;5: 183-187.
• Syed A, Baseer A & Ahmed S. Pregnancy Induced Hypertension. Hyperlipidemia, a Cause of Endothelial Damage. Ann. Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi Med. & Dent. Coll., 2000; 200-203.
• Syed A & Ahmed S. Pregnancy Induced Hypertension. The Influence of Antioxidant Vitamins on Gestational Age and Birth Weight. Spectrum, 2002;23 (9,10): 2-6.

Poster Presentations

• Kian-Guan Lee, Sobhana Thangaraju, Syed Salahuddin Ahmed, Hwai Liang Loh, Terence Yi Shern Kee. Plasma Cell-Rich Acute Rejection of Renal Allograft – An Unusual Case of Acute Allograft Dysfunction. 2016 Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology (APCN), Perth, Australia. 
  
• Ahmed SS, Thike AA, Lim CTJ, Tan PH. Cancer Stem Cell (S100A4) and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Interactions (ALDH1) in Phyllodes Tumours: Outcome Analysis in Relation to Clinical Features and Patient Survival. Poster presentation IAP/ESP Congress 2016.
  
• Ahmed SS, Thike AA, Iqbal J, Lim CTJ, Tan PH. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (Ezrin and HMGA2) and Cancer Stem Cells (EZH2) Interactions in Phyllodes Tumours: Clinical Relevance and Prognostic Significance. Poster presentation USCAP annual meeting 2016
  
• Iqbal J, Ahmed SS, Tan PH.  SFRP1 down-regulation is associated with over-expression of beta-catenin and inhibition of cyclin D1 in triple negative breast carcinoma (TNBC).   SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress Singapore, October 2010.
  
• Glengarry J, Ahmed S. Renal Cell Carcinoma Associated with Xp11.2 Translocation /TFE3 Gene Fusions. Poster presentation IAP Australasian Division Meeting, Sydney, Australia 2009
• Ahmed S, Jundi M. Pleomorphic Liposarcoma Presenting as an Exophytic Polypoid Mass on the Second Toe of a Young Adult Female, College of American Pathologists Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 10 – 13 September 2008, Poster Presentation.
• Ahmed S, Jundi M. IgD Positive L & H Cells in Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma (NLPHL), College of American Pathologists Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 25 – 28 September 2008, Poster Presentation.
• Ahmed S, Burger M, al-Maliki M, Farrhat, F.l. Vitamin D Deficiency Among Middle Eastern Women Wearing Hijab, thus not regularly exposed to direct sunlight, College of American Pathologists Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 25 – 28 September 2008, Abstract.
• Jundi M, Ahmed S. Fine Needle Aspiration of a Liver Mass in a Patient with Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia, Neotrophilic Variant, College of American Pathologists Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 25 – 28 September 2008, Poster Presentation.
• Amortegeu A, Ahmed S, Kapali M, Trucco J. Determination of Optimum Number of Levels Required for Optimal Diagnosis in Breast Core Biopsies, International Academy of Pathology Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 16 – 20 September 2006, Poster Presentation.
• Carter G, Ahmed S, Akousua D. Granular Cell Tumour, Rare Benign Tumour of the Breast – A Retrospective Clinico-Pathologic and Mammographic Review, College of American Pathologists Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA, 10 – 13 September 2006, Poster Presentation.
• Grubber H, Ahmed S. Testicular Neoplasm - A Twenty Five Year Retrospective Review of Twenty Four Cases at the Veterans Affair Hospital, New York. Presented at Kimbrough Urological Conference, Dec 1996.