Fawaz Al Ammary, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation
Attending Physician, University of California Irvine Medical Center
Biography
Fawaz Al Ammary, M.B.B.Ch., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of Mixed Methods Research in Kidney Health and Transplantation in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health and completed fellowship training in Nephrology and Transplant Nephrology at the University of Colorado Denver. Al Ammary serves as Core Leader of the Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology and Founding Director of the Living Donor and Transplant Outcomes Collaborative at UC Irvine. His research lab is a demonstration of his transformative influence on the next generation of clinical researchers.
Al Ammary's research focuses on advancing population health, access to living donor kidney transplantation and enhancing healthcare delivery across diverse populations through epidemiologic studies, prediction modeling, and telemedicine services. His work has examined trends in living kidney donation in the United States, risk assessment for donors with hypertension, international living donation, and racial disparities in transplant access. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed original research articles in journals including the the Journal of American Society of Nephrology (JASN), American Journal of Transplantation (AJT), Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), and Transplantation. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, including a K23 career development award focused on telemedicine care delivery to advance shared decision making in the evaluation and counseling of living kidney donor candidates, and an R03 award to advance follow-up care of living kidney donors after kidney donation.
Al Ammary is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation and serves as Chair of the Telemedicine Workgroup for the American Society of Transplantation Living Donor Community of Practice. He previously served as Medical Director of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 2017 to 2020. His work has been recognized with the Epic Faculty Scholars Program Award at Johns Hopkins and he was a finalist for the W. Leigh Thompson Excellence in Research Clinical Research Faculty Award.
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- M.B.B.Ch. (M.D.), Cairo University Faculty of Medicine, 1999
- Ph.D. in Health Services Research, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health, 2019
Distinctions
- People's Choice 3 Minute Thesis Award, University of Colorado Graduate School, 2018
- Epic Faculty Scholars Program Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2018
- W. Leigh Thompson Excellence in Research, Finalist of the Clinical Research Faculty Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2020
- Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (FAST), 2022
- UCI Campus-Community Research Incubator Program Awardee, 2023
- Academic Senate Member, University of California, Irvine, 2024
Areas of Expertise
- Kidney Transplantation Epidemiology
- Living Donor Outcomes
- Transplant Access and Outcomes
- Transplant Health Disparities
- Telemedicine Healthcare Delivery
- Shared Decision Making
- Mixed Methods Health Services
- Donor Nephrectomy Risk Assessment
- Kidney Paired Donation
Recent Publications
- Esayed S, Kim E, Sung HC, Al-Seraji A, Adeyemo S, Troutt H, Tantisattamoa E, Ferrey A, Reddy UG, Malik FT, Redfield III RR, Ichii H, Muzaale AD, Malhotra D, Al Ammary F, “Hybrid Telemedicine and In-Person Care for Kidney Transplant Follow-Up: A Qualitative Study” (opens in new tab), Clinical Transplantation, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. e70106, 2025.
- Al Ammary F, Lentine KL, Zisman-Ilani Y, Hughes H, Adeyemo S, “Rurality vs. Non-Rurality of Kidney Transplant Patients and the Potential Role of Telemedicine Services” (opens in new tab), Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, vol. 20, pp. 1443-1445, 2025.
- Al Ammary F., Muzaale A.D., Adeyemo S., “210.1: Racial and ethnic disparities in preemptive kidney transplantation in the United States.” (opens in new tab), Transplantation, vol. 109, pp. S11-S11, 2025.
- Al Ammary F., Adeyemo S., Gurakar A., “212.8: Liver transplant recipient survival by donor type.” (opens in new tab), Transplantation, vol. 109, pp. S25-S25, 2025.
- Al Ammary F., Naveed A., Adeyemo S., Muzaale A.D., “308.7: Living kidney donation and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” (opens in new tab), Transplantation, vol. 109, pp. S73-S73, 2025.
- Kim E, Sung HC, Kaplow K, Bendersky V, Sidoti C, Muzaale AD, Akhtar J, Levan M, Esayed S, Khan A, Mejia C, Al Ammary F, “Donor Perceptions and Preferences of Telemedicine and In-Person Visits for Living Kidney Donor Evaluation” (opens in new tab), Kidney international reports, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 2453-61, 2024.
- Arking A, Kaddu G, Massie AB, Segev DL, Garonzik-Wang J, Snyder J, King EA, Muzaale AD, Al Ammary F, “Seasonal Patterns of Living Kidney Donation in the United States From 1995 to 2019” (opens in new tab), Clin Transplant, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. e15454, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Adeyemo S, Lentine KL, Muzaale AD, “Evolution of Biologically Related Living Kidney Donation in the United States from 1988 to 2022” (opens in new tab), Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 1104-6, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Adeyemo S, Lentine KL, Muzaale A, “Evolution of Biologically Related Living Kidney Donations in the United States over 35 Years: SA-PO979”, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, vol. 35, no. 10S, pp. 10.1681, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Adeyemo S, Muzaale A, Naveed A, “Perioperative Donor Nephrectomy Risks in Living Kidney Donors with Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: SA-PO980”, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, vol. 35, no. 10S, pp. 10.1681, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Gurakar A, Humar A, Lentine KL, Adeyemo S, Al-Seraji A, Bunnapradist S, Amin AN, Redfield III RR, Muzaale AD, “P. 193: The interplay of donor-recipient relationship and donor race in living liver donation in the United States”, Transplantation, vol. 108, no. 9S, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Humar A, Adeyemo S, Kriby K, Gurakar A, “ADVANCEMENTS IN LIVER TRANSPLANT OUTOMES FROM 1997 TO 2023”, Hepatology (Baltimore, Md), LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Lentine KL, Crews DC, Muzaale A, Adeyemo S, “Racial Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States, 1999-2023”, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Muzaale A, Adeyemo S, “Racial Disparities in Access to Preemptive Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States from 2001-2023: TH-OR04”, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, vol. 35, no. 10S, pp. 10.1681, 2024.
- Al Ammary F, Yang P, Adeyemo S, Lentine KL, Tantisattamoa E, Ferrey A, Reddy UG, Redfield III RR, Ichii H, Massie AB, “341.1: Fluctuations in living kidney donations in the United States from 2017 to 2022”, Transplantation, vol. 108, no. 9S, 2024.
- Chiang T, Al Ammary F, Muzaale A, Patel S, Crews D, Brennan D, Rabb H, Stewart D, Segev D, Massie A, “Prediction of 6-Month Post-Donation Serum Creatinine in Living Kidney Donors”, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2023.
- Al Ammary F, Yu S, Muzaale AD, Segev DL, Liyanage L, Crews DC, Brennan DC, El-Meanawy A, Alqahtani S, Atta MG, Henderson ML, Caffo BS, Welling PA, Massie AB, “Long-term Kidney Function and Survival in Recipients of Allografts from Living Kidney Donors with Hypertension: A National Cohort Study” (opens in new tab), Transplant international, vol. 34, pp. 1530-1541, 2021.
Most Cited Publications
- Al Ammary F, Bowring MG, Massie AB, Yu S, Waldram MM, Garonzik-Wang J, Thomas AG, Holscher CM, Qadi MA, Henderson ML, Wiseman AC, Gralla J, Brennan DC, Segev DL, Muzaale AD, “The changing landscape of live kidney donation in the United States from 2005 to 2017” (opens in new tab), American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 2614-21, 2019.
- Abuzeineh M, Muzaale AD, Crews DC, Avery RK, Brotman DJ, Brennan DC, Segev DL, Al Ammary F, “Telemedicine in the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients with COVID-19: Case Reports” (opens in new tab), Transplantation proceedings, vol. 52, pp. 2620-2625, 2020.
- Al Ammary F, Luo X, Muzaale AD, Massie AB, Crews DC, Waldram MM, Qadi MA, Garonzik-Wang J, Henderson ML, Brennan DC, Wiseman AC, Lindrooth RC, Snyder JJ, Coresh J, Segev DL, “Risk of ESKD in Older Live Kidney Donors with Hypertension” (opens in new tab), Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 1048-55, 2019.
- Al Ammary F, Yu Y, Ferzola A, Motter JD, Massie AB, Yu S, Thomas AG, Crews DC, Segev DL, Muzaale AD, Henderson ML, “The First Increase in Live Kidney Donation in The United States in 15 Years” (opens in new tab), American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, vol. 20, pp. 3590-3598, 2020.
- Shchekochikhin D, Al Ammary F, Lindenfeld JA, Schrier R, “Role of diuretics and ultrafiltration in congestive heart failure” (opens in new tab), Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 851-66, 2013.
- Al Ammary F, Thomas AG, Massie AB, Muzaale AD, Shaffer AA, Koons B, Qadi MA, Crews DC, Garonzik-Wang J, Fang H, Brennan DC, Lentine KL, Segev DL, Henderson ML, “The landscape of international living kidney donation in the United States” (opens in new tab), American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 2009-19, 2019.
- Al Ammary F, Concepcion BP, Yadav A, “The Scope of Telemedicine in Kidney Transplantation: Access and Outreach Services” (opens in new tab), Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 542-7, 2021.
- Al Almmary F, Sidoti C, Segev DL, Henderson JM, “Healthcare Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Adoption of Telemedicine in Kidney Transplantation” (opens in new tab), American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, vol. 77, pp. 773-776, 2020.
- Al Ammary F, Muzaale AD, Tantisattamoa E, Hanna RM, Reddy UG, Bunnapradist, S, Kalantar-Zadeh, K, “Changing Landscape of Living Kidney Donation and the Role of Telemedicine” (opens in new tab), Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 81-8, 2023.
- Muzaale A, Khan A, Glassock RJ, Tantisattamoa E, Ahdoot RS, Al Ammary F, “Kidney function assessment in the geriatric population” (opens in new tab), Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 267-71, 2024.
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