Ahmed El-Sherief MD

Summary

• Dr. Ahmed El-Sherief is a thoracic radiologist and academic clinician-educator in Los Angeles, currently Acting Chief of Imaging at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) and Section Head of Chest Imaging. He is also a Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
  
  His clinical focus includes lung cancer imaging and screening, thoracic oncology, interstitial lung disease, and advanced thoracic CT interpretation.
  
  A central theme of his work is standardizing high-quality imaging practice at scale through national guideline scholarship, education, and technology. He has contributed to evidence-based imaging standards through ACR Appropriateness Criteria guideline publications in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
  
  His national and VA service has included roles with the ACR Appropriateness Criteria Cardiac Imaging Panel, ARRS (Review Track Section Chair—Chest), and STR committees, as well as VA lung cancer screening and precision oncology initiatives.
  
  In medical education, he is Course Chair for the UCLA medical student elective Radiology for Clinicians at the West LA VA, which he developed as an active, patient-centered rotation emphasizing imaging appropriateness, workflow/communication, and practical decision-making.
  
  He is also the co-founder and co-creator of RadiologiQ, a suite of radiology clinical decision-support and education apps with ≥300,000 downloads, designed to support consistent radiology interpretation and practice.