Walid Ayoub, MD, is the assistant medical director of liver transplantation at the Liver Disease and Transplant Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He also serves as a clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American Gastroenterological Society and American Liver Foundation. He is board-certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology and transplant hepatology.
Dr. Ayoub focuses on acid reflux disease, autoimmune hepatitis, chronic hepatitis B and C, irritable bowel syndrome and liver transplantation. He was awarded a research grant from Cangene to evaluate the prevention of hepatitis B virus in liver transplant patients using a combination of HBIg and antiviral therapy. He serves as a reviewer for publications such as the American Journal of Transplantation, World Journal of Gastroenterology and Journal of Medical Virology.
Dr. Ayoub earned his medical degree from the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Neb. He completed his residency at UCLA/West Los Angeles VA Hospital as well as a hepatology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai and a gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA.