# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ayub-k-ommaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:20:20.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ayub-k-ommaya"
name: "Ayub K. Ommaya"
slug: "ayub-k-ommaya"
description: "Ayub Khan Ommaya, MD, ScD (hc), FRCS, FACS (1930–2008) was a Pakistani American neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir. The reservoir is used to provide chemotherapy directly to the tumor site for brain tumors. Ommaya was also a leading expert in traumatic brain injuries."
tagline: "American neurosurgeon (1930-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ayub_ommaya.JPEG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-04-14"
deathDate: "2008-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.74
  momentum:             3.061224489795918
  historical:           7.016236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "ایوب امایا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "أيوب أومايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayub_Khan_Ommaya"
    title: "Ayub Khan Ommaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayub_Ommaya"
    title: "Ayub Ommaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayub_Ommaya"
    title: "Ayub Ommaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A8_%DA%A9%DB%92_%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%DB%81"
    title: "ایوب کے امیہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F%2C_%D0%90%D1%8E%D0%B1_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Оммайя, Аюб Хан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayub_K._Ommaya"
    title: "Ayub K. Ommaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q793337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump