Associate Professor
Director of Cytopathology

• Cytopathology
• Surgical pathology
• Immunohistochemistry

• Extracellular matrix biology, particularly hyaluronic acid and its metabolism
• p21 expression in ovarian cancer

Alaa Afify received his Doctor of Medicine in 1981, from Alexandria University and School of Medicine in Maryland.  From 1991-1992, he completed an internship at Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center in New York City in internal medicine.  After completing his residency training in Pathology at Brown University School of Medicine in Rhode Island from 1992-1996, he completed a fellowship in Oncologic Surgical Pathology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.  Following his Oncologic Surgical Pathology fellowship, Alaa Afify completed a fellowship in Cytopathology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Currently, Alaa Afify serves as an Associate Professor of Pathology and is the Director of Cytopathology for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Alaa Afify is a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the American Society of Cytopathology, the American Society of Immunohistochemistry, the College of American Pathologists and the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.