Qanta Ahmed attended medical school in Nottingham, England after which she migrated to the US for her postgraduate training. She completed her residency at Staten Island University Hospital in New York City, before attending a combined pulmonary critical care and sleep fellowship at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York. She is triple board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine.
Currently she is taking a one-year sabbatical in the Middle East where she works as a full time intensivist in a medical/trauma ICU at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is extensively published in medical literature mainly in the field of pneumonia.