Ahmed graduated in 1984 from Dow Medical College and in her training years rotated through all the major teaching hospitals in North West London. She initially trained in Head & Neck cancer surgery; thereafter in Otology and Salivary Gland surgery.  Ms Ahmed is now a full-time ENT Consultant in the Morecambe Bay Trust and has worked with them for about 16 years. She performs all mastoid surgery, most other forms of ear surgery and is the only ENT Surgeon at Morecambe Bay Trust undertaking salivary gland surgery, particularly of the parotid gland. She has also trained in sialendoscopy which is an endoscopic; organ preservation approach to salivary gland pathology.

Hee-Young Kim is an otolaryngologist and director of Kim Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He received his Doctor of Medicine, and PhD in pathology from Chung-Ang University, South Korea. His area of academic interest is Eustachian tube disfunction and he has published on topics such as Vertigo: Eustachian tube function should be assessed before vestibular function, Eustachian tube catheterization, vertigo due to Eustachian tube obstruction in peer-reviewed journals. He was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Since 2016, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Otolaryngology-ENT Research.