Jawad Ahmad, MD, is a gastroenterologist and a professor of medicine and liver diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He previously served as the chief of the GI Section at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and was co-medical director of transplant hepatology at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Ahmad has a professional interest in cirrhosis, endoscopic band ligation, esophageal varices, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, liver biopsy and toxic hepatitis. His research interests include organ allocation and recurrent disease after liver transplantation. He is co-primary investigator on the NIH/NIDDK research initiative to study cases of severe liver injury caused by caused by prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and alternative medicines.
Dr. Ahmad's work has been published in a number of professional publications such as Liver Transplantation and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Ahmad earned his medical degree from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London in the United Kingdom. He completed his internal medicine residency at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.