Since 2014 he has been the Executive Secretary of the Maldives Association of Surgeons (MAS) which is the foremost and leading surgical body of the kind in the country. Dr. Ahmed Nishan is a skilled laparoscopic surgeon, performing complex minimal access surgeries. He grabbed the first place during his laparoscopic surgery training. He aims at introducing a variety of keyhole surgeries to Maldives. He is the first Maldivian surgeon to perform in Maldives a single-incision laparoscopic surgery and also amongst the first to perform TEP inguinal hernia repairs. In addition, he is also trained in forensic medicine and often shares his expertise in this field with the government authorities.