Ziyad Ayyoub, M.D., QME
Dr. Ayyoub is Chief of the Adult Brain Injury Service at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. He received his medical degree from Minsk State Medical Institute in Minsk, Belarus. He completed his residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Los Angeles and in general surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California.
He joined the medical staff at Rancho Los Amigos in 1998 as an Attending Physician on the Adult Brain Injury Service. He was promoted to Chief in 2000. Dr. Ayyoub is the Director of the spasticity management program at Rancho and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Greffen School of Medicine at the UCLA. He is board certified by the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury Medicine.
Dr. Ayyoub has been involved in a number of research studies, and has presented to his colleagues on various physical medicine and rehabilitation topics such as spasticity, brain injury rehabilitation, complications of spinal cord injury, brain injury in pediatrics, stroke rehabilitation techniques, etc.
Dr. Ayyoub is fluent in Russian and Arabic.
For more information about Dr. Ayyoub, please see his Curriculum Vitae Highlights.