[3] He was a sportsperson in his early days and was the recipient of 2007 Bangladesh National Sports Award in the basketball category.
[2] Ahmad returned to Dhaka in April 1970 and, first as an assistant surgeon then as an associate professor at the neurosurgical unit of Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research (IPGMR).
[2] During the 1971 war, he moved to Edinburgh and worked as a senior registrar and then consultant neurosurgeon at a number of hospitals in England and Wales.
[2] In 1976, he returned permanently to Dhaka and joined as the professor of neurosurgery at IPGMR in 1979, and later a consultant neurosurgeon at the Combined Military Hospital with the honorary rank of colonel.
[2] Then in 1998, he became the founding president of the Bangladesh Society of Neurosurgeons and helped establishing the National Institute of Neuroscience in 2012.