Ziyad Ayyoub, M.D.
Dr. Ayyoub is Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Loma Linda University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Western University of Health Sciences. He is Director of the UCLA Multicampus Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program and the Loma Linda Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. Additionally, he is an Attending Physician at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey where he also serves as Vice Chair of the Department of Neurorehabilitation, Chief of the Adult Brain Injury Service and President-Elect of the Professional Staff Association.Dr. Ayyoub's areas of specialty are in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain management and spasticity management. He is the Director of the spasticity management program at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator on multiple grant-funded research studies, including a retrospective chart review of myobloc treatment for spasticity in adult patients, a study examining pulmonary function in patients with reduced lung function treated with Botox, and a study on multiple-dose efficacy and safety study of XP19986 in subjects with spasticity due to spinal cord injury, etc.
He serves as Chair on a number of committees at Rancho Los Amigos, including the credentials committee and the committee on failure modes, effects and criticality analysis on deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and treatment. Dr. Ayyoub is certified by the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AAPMR), with a sub-specialty in spinal injury medicine. He is a fellow of AAPMR and the AAPMR's Brain Injury and Spasticity Special Interest Groups.