UAB Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology Jay M. McDonald, MD, announces the appointment of Fouad N. Boctor, MD, PhD, as associate professor in the Division of Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Boctor completed his BS degree in chemistry and his MS degree in applied chemistry at Cairo University in Egypt. After obtaining a PhD in biochemistry from Egypt's Mansoura University and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he returned to Cairo University to complete his MD degree.

Following a pathology and laboratory medicine residency at the University of Connecticut in Farmington and a surgical pathology residency at New York University in New York City, Dr. Boctor served a fellowship in transfusion medicine and immunohematology at the University of Connecticut in Hartford. He is certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and blood bank/transfusion medicine by the American Board of Pathology.

Most recently, Dr. Boctor served as assistant professor and blood bank director at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Montefiore Medical Center) in Bronx, New York, and as blood bank director and surgical pathologist at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Boctor's current research focuses on immunology of platelets and photophoresis. He may be reached at 934-0616 for academic and administrative calls; e-mail fboctor@uabmc.edu.