I am anatomic and clinical pathologist specializing in cytopathology and surgical pathology at the Department of Pathology and cell biology. I completed medical school at Tripoli University, Libya and clinical scientist training program master's degree from Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas. I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor and MD Anderson Cancer Center and engaged in translational research focusing on adoptive immunotherapy with gene-modified effector cells to improve cancer therapy using CAR-T cells and published several peer-reviewed articles in esteemed journals. I completed my anatomic and clinical pathology training at Brown University/ Rhode Island Hospital and cytopathology training program at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. I completed my surgical pathology training at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital/Harvard University.

I held previous appointments as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Rutgers University and Director of the Cytopathology services at Monmouth Medical Center and Community medical center.