New faculty spotlight: Zaid Al-Kadhimi, M.D.

Zaid Al-Kadhimi

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.