Waseem Ahmad • UCSF Profiles

Waseem Ahmad, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	1701 Divisadero, #120 San Francisco CA 94115
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Biography

Education and Training

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	BS	2012	Chemistry
Rush Medical College	MD	2016
University of California, San Diego		2019	Internal Medicine
University of California, San Diego		2022	Gastroenterology

Overview

Dr. Waseem Ahmad is a gastroenterologist who cares for patients with a broad range of digestive conditions and symptoms, such as heartburn, abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits and gastrointestinal bleeding. He provides colon cancer screening and works with patients on prevention. He also performs diagnostic procedures, including colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), a test that uses an endoscope (a long, flexible tube with a tiny camera) to examine the upper digestive tract.

Ahmad earned his medical degree at Rush Medical College. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California, San Diego, where he also served as chief fellow.

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Publications

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Protocol of early lumen apposing metal stent removal for pseudocysts and walled off necrosis avoids bleeding complications. Scand J Gastroenterol. 2020 Feb; 55(2):242-247. Ahmad W, Fehmi SA, Savides TJ, Anand G, Chang MA, Kwong WT. PMID: 31942808.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 9 Fields:
Gas Gastroenterology
Translation:Humans
Comparison of Multiplex Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel and Conventional Stool Testing for Evaluation of Diarrhea in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Dig Dis Sci. 2019 02; 64(2):382-390. Ahmad W, Nguyen NH, Boland BS, Dulai PS, Pride DT, Bouland D, Sandborn WJ, Singh S. PMID: 30361807; PMCID: PMC6358459.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 10 Fields:
Gas Gastroenterology
Translation:Humans Cells
Boerhaave's Syndrome: A Window to the Heart. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 07; 16(7):e77-e78. Ahmad W, Kwong WT. PMID: 28893681.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Gas Gastroenterology
Translation:Humans
Percutaneous endoscopy to diagnose malignancy in gastric outlet obstruction of excluded stomach after gastric bypass. Ann Gastroenterol. 2017; 30(3):367-369. Ahmad W, Rubin J, Kwong W. PMID: 28469371; PMCID: PMC5411391.

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Procalcitonin is a strong predictor of urine culture results in patients with obstructing ureteral stones: A prospective, pilot study. Urol Ann. 2016 Jul-Sep; 8(3):277-80. Papagiannopoulos D, Whelan P, Ahmad W, Rybak J, Hota B, Deane L, Nehra A. PMID: 27453647; PMCID: PMC4944618.

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NFAT and CREB regulate Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-induced cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2). J Virol. 2010 Dec; 84(24):12733-53. Sharma-Walia N, George Paul A, Patel K, Chandran K, Ahmad W, Chandran B. PMID: 20943963; PMCID: PMC3004349.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 20 Fields:
Vir Virology
Translation:Humans Cells