Zaid Al-Kadhimi, M.D., is a new faculty member at UNMC.
- Name: Zaid Al-Kadhimi, M.D.
- Hometown: Baghdad, Iraq
- Title and department at UNMC: Associate professor, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology and Hematology; director of bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy
Research/professional interests:
- Specialty: Leukemia, stem cell transplant
- General description of duties: bone marrow transplant
My research focus is:
- To develop cellular therapy trials for leukemia.
- To develop regimens for the prevention and therapy of graft versus host disease, a major complication of allogeneic blood and marrow transplant.
- To develop allogeneic blood and marrow transplant regimens using partially matched donors in the absence of a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched donor.
Degrees:
- M.D., University of Baghdad College of Medicine
- Residency, internal medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
- Fellowship, hematology oncology, City of Hope/UCLA
- Bone Marrow Transplant Fellowship, City of Hope/UCLA
How I fell in love with transplant and tumor immunology:
The dance between cancer cells and the immune system
Memberships:
- American Association of Blood and Marrow Transplant
Three things people may not know about me:
- I love to swim.
- I love airplanes . . .
- so much that I obtained my private pilot’s license in 1998 in Fargo, N.D.