Education

M.D. Damascus University, Damascus, Syria, 1985

Specialty Certification

American Board of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1992
American Board of Molecular Genetic Pathology, 2005

Postgraduate Training

Anatomic & Clinical Pathology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 1987-1991
Chief Resident, Department of Pathology, Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, TX, 1991-1992
Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Lauren V. Ackerman Laboratory, Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1992-1993
Urologic Pathology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 1993-1994

Awards and Honors

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Pathology, The Housestaff Teaching Award for Anatomic Pathology, 2007
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Urology, The Housestaff Teaching Award, 2010

Memberships and Professional Organizations

American Society of Clinical Pathology, 1993 - Present
College of American Pathology, 1993 - Present
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), 1994 - present
International Academy of Pathology, 1996 - Present
Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP), 1998 - Present
American College of Medical Genetics, 2004 - 2005
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 2005 - 2016
International Society of Urologic Pathology, 2005 - Present
American Urologic Association, 2006 - Present
Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Biomedical Research Council, Singapore, 2009 - Present
Cancer Research UK, London, England, 2009 - Present
Cambridge Health Institute (CHI), 2012 - 2012
Patrick C Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund, 2012 - 2016
Genentech, 2014 - Present
International Agency for Research on Cancer - World Health Organization, 2015 - 2015
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), 2017 - Present
Association of Pathology Chairs, 2018 - Present
European Society of Pathology, 2018 - Present
International Academy of Pathology (IAP), 2018 - Present
American Medical Association, 2018 - Present
International Agency for Research on Cancer-World Health Organization (WHO) Blue Book Editorial Board “Urinary and Male Genital Tumours”, 2020 - 2020
American Association for Cancer Research, 2020 - Present
French Ministry of Health and National Cancer Institute of Health (INCa), Translational Cancer Research Project, 2020 - 2020
KWF Kankerbestrijding – Dutch Cancer Society, 2020 - 2020
National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG) The Cancer Genome Atlas Program Testicular Germ Cell (TGCT), 2020 - 2020
MSD (Merck & Co.), 2020 - Present
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Laboratory of Pathology, 2021 - 2021
American Society for Investigative Pathology, 2022 - Present
National Cancer Institute Early Detection Network, 2022 - 2022
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, 2024 - Present

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Selected Publications