Fawaz Al Ammary, United States

Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation
University of California, Irvine

Dr. Fawaz Al Ammary received his medical degree from Cairo University School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at Case Western Reserve University (MetroHealth) in Cleveland, Ohio, and nephrology and transplant nephrology fellowship training at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado. He also completed a Ph.D. in health services research at the University of Colorado.

Dr. Al Ammary served as a full-time faculty member and medical director of the living kidney donor program in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University from 2015 to 2022, and then he joined the University of California, Irvine in December 2022 as an Associate Professor and a senate faculty member.

Dr. Al Ammary has received National Institute of Health (NIH) Awards, including NIDDK K23 Career Development Award (2021-2026) and NIDDK R03 Award (2025-2027), a National Kidney Foundation, and philanthropic grants. His work broadly focuses on advancing access to living donor kidney transplantation and leveraging telemedicine services to improve transplant care accessibility for diverse populations. Parallel to this, Dr. Al Ammary serves as Chair of the Telemedicine Workgroup, American Society of Transplantation Living Donor Community of Practice (2020-current).

 

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0928-2860

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/fawazalaammary/

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