Phone: (323) 442-5568
Fax: (323) 442-5721
E-mail: usckidney@surgery.hsc.usc.edu

Dr. El-Shahawy is an associate professor of medicine at the USC School of Medicine, as well as medical director of the Kidney Transplant Program and vice chief of medicine at USC University Hospital.

Dr. El-Shahawy did his residency in internal medicine at St. Mary's Hospital-Yale University School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in nephrology and transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and a fellowship in nephrology at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center.

Dr. El-Shahawy joined the USC School of Medicine faculty in 1989 and began research in multiple areas including renal transplantation, acute renal failure, and hepatitis C virus infection in patients undergoing dialysis or kidney transplantation. Dr. El-Shahawy also developed the USC Acute Renal Failure Registry, a computerized database of patients with acute renal failure at LAC+USC Medical Center and USC University Hospital.

He is board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology and is a UNOS-certified transplant nephrologist. Dr. El-Shahawy is an honors graduate of the Masters in Health Administration program at the USC School of Policy Planning and Development, and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi society.