Alaa S Awad is a University of Florida professor of medicine and a board-certified nephrologist at UF Health Jacksonville. He also serves as medical director of the Dialysis Unit. He received his medical degree from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt in 1997. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 2017, as well as a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas in 2019.