Rami Mahfouz earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut followed by a Clinical Pathology residency and a Fellowship in Molecular Pathology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on HLA and molecular diagnostics and microarrays technology in research.
In 2002, he joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center as Assistant Professor and worked since then on establishing a Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory with a service scope covering different specialties including Transplantation, Molecular Microbiology, and Molecular Pathology.
His major research interests include Natural killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) genotyping, HLA associations, and cancer profiling. He has more than 220 publications in peer-reviewed journals and serves as Associate and Executive editor on several international journals including GENE and FRONTIERS.
He is currently a Tenured Professor and Head of Division of Clinical Pathology in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at AUBMC and the Director of the Histocompatibility and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Director of the Residency Training Program, and Chairman of the Biomedical Institutional Review Board. He is a member of several international and professional societies including the College of American Pathologists (CAP), the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) where he served as Chair of its Membership Committee, and the American Association of Molecular Pathologists (AMP) where he is serving as the Chair of the International Affairs Committee.
Dr. Mahfouz won several international awards:
Rami Mahfouz, M.D.