Rashiduddin Ahmad

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] He was the first chairman of the neurosurgery department when the IPGMR turned into a university, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, in 1998.^[6]

In 1987, he became the founding general secretary (and later president) of the Bangladesh Society of Neurosciences.^[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.^[2] He was a founder member of the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS).^[2] He became the second president of the South Asian Association of Neurological Societies, and was an honorary president of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons.^[2]

Ahmad was selected as the first captain of the East Pakistan National Basketball team.^[2] In 1989, he captained the Bangladesh team for Davis Cup.^[2]

Ahmad married Quamrun Nahar in 1966, later divorced.^[2] Together they had a daughter and a son.^[2] Ahmad's brother, Ghiasuddin Ahmad, a professor of history at the University of Dhaka, was a victim of the 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals.^[2]