Ahmed El-Sherief MD

Summary

• Dr. Ahmed El-Sherief is a radiologist based in Los Angeles, CA, specializing in thoracic imaging. He earned his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2004, followed by an internship at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center and a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Rochester. He completed a fellowship in thoracic and cardiac imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  
  Since 2014, Dr. El-Sherief has served as an Attending Physician at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) and as a Health Sciences Clinical Professor at UCLA. He also serves as the radiology co-lead of the VAGLAHS Lung Cancer Screening Program. Prior to this, he was an Attending Physician at the Cleveland Clinic from 2010 to 2014.
  
  Dr. El-Sherief’s clinical and research interests include lung cancer screening, lung cancer nodal staging, radiology blind spots, optimization of radiologist workload, institutional resource management, and the use of technology to enhance medical education. He has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been an invited lecturer at national and international medical conferences.