Khalil M.A. Tabsh was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon and is the eldest of five children. He is married to Suha Murad, MD, an anesthesiologist, and they have four children. Dr. Tabsh obtained his baccalaureate and medical degrees at the American University in Beirut. In 1978 he completed his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Yale University and in 1980 he completed his Maternal-Fetal Fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Tabsh received his American Board Certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1981 and his American Board Certification in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 1982.

Dr. Tabsh is famous nationally and internationally as a pioneer and innovator in Maternal-Fetal medicine. He is a renowned researcher, academician and clinician. He has received numerous grants including those for fetal and neonatal cardiovascular function, renal hypertension in pregnancy and chorionic villus sampling. Dr. Tabsh has over 50 articles in peer reviewed journals. He has also authored over 15 books and chapters in medical textbooks and penned more than 60 abstracts for professional publications and conferences.

From 1980 to the present Dr. Tabsh has served in a variety of positions at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the Medical Center and School of Medicine. He served as the Director of High Risk Obstetrics and Co-Director of Fetal Echocardiography, and then as the Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. In 1998 Dr. Tabsh became the Vice Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Obstetrics, positions he currently holds. In addition to his responsibilities at UCLA Dr. Tabsh has held the position of the Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley since 1985 and a similar position at Santa Monica/UCLA Hospital since 1988.

Dr. Tabsh’s primary focus is the care of pregnant women with severe maternal and/or fetal complications. There is never a patient care challenge that he is not willing to assume. He performed the first hysterotomy with delivery of one twin by cesarean section while the second twin remained for delivery at a later date and was one of the first Perinatologists in the word to undertake the care of a patient who had a liver transplant during pregnancy.

Dr. Tabsh has received many honors including a recent 2004 award as Physician of the Year by the American Lebanese Medical Association, and was asked to serve as a medical advisor to President George H.W. Bush. He lectures extensively throughout Southern California and has volunteered his time to the Perinatal Advisory Council of the Los Angeles Communities and served as an advisor to many local hospital morbidity and mortality committees striving to improve the outcome of pregnancy. Dr. Tabsh has also been featured as the cover story for the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, an honor rarely given to physicians, as “Dr. Amnio” noting “UCLA’s Khalil Tabsh Rides the Wild Frontier of the High-Tech, High Risk New Obstetrics”.