Faculty

Dr. Ahlam al Shedoukhy
Professor, Pathology
College of Medicine
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: aalshedoukhy@alfaisal.edu
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7697 office

Education:
MBBS	1982-1988	Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
F.R.C.P.C.	June 2000	Canadian Certification in Specialty of Anatomical Pathology
UCSF- USA	April 2005	Dermatopathology Sub Specialization, University of California, San Francesco, USA.

Working Experience:

September 2011- till present Assistant professor and Head of Pathology, Pharmacology Department at Alfaisal University, College of Medicine- Riyadh, KSA.
October 2009 – October 2011: Assistant Professor at Security Forces Hospital. Consultant Pathologist, Dermatopathologist, Riyadh, KSA.
March 2007- September 2009 Consultant Pathologist, Dermatopathologist and Assistant Professor at KFSH&RC.
April 2006- March 2007 Head of Histopathology at AlHabeeb Medical Complex.
February 2006- April 2006 Acting Head of Department of Histopathology at
King Fahad Medical City
April 2005- September 2005 Fellowship Training in Dermatopathology
University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco
July 2004 – April 2005 Locum Appointment / Consultant Pathologist
King Faisal Specialist Hospital
May 2003-July 2004 Assistant Professor of Pathology, King Saud University
June 2001 – May 2003 Consultant –Pathologist,King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh
June 1996-June 2000 Resident in Pathology
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
January 1, 1996- June 1996 Resident in Pathology
University of British Colombia, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada

Research:

Post-mortem histopathological changes in premature neonates with respiratory distress on ventilatory support and having received surfactant compared with similar clinical picture, however without, the use of surfactant (Archival Autopsy material before Availability of Surfactant).
Review of Kimura’s disease and presentation of unique case (presented at the Resident’s Research Day, Calgary, Alberta).
The black Crow Awared, in 1998, Calary, Alberta- Canada, for doing the most number of Autopsy cases,

Publications:

“CASE of Urinary Bladder Bortryoid Rhabdomyosarcoma”.
“Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma – Two Primaries with No Significant factors”. Published in the Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology Vol. 9, Nov. 3, 2003.
Orbital alveolar soft part sarcoma; Histopathologic report of two cases. Published in Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology (2010) 24, 57-61.
In progress; A case report of Atypical NK T-cell lymphoma, Nasal type, in a young Saudi male, KFSH experience.

ON-GOING RESEARCHES:

Head and neck Lymphoma, K.AU.H experience
FNA Finding in a Case of Insular carcinoma of Thyroid

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Instruction of medical students and pathology residents rotating through division of Histopathology.
Histopathological instruction for internal medicine residents on clinical-pathological conference meetings (inter-hospital).
Instruction of dental students of forensic pathology.
Responsible for running a course on cervical Pathology cytology (Pap smear) gynecology residents.
Organ demonstration on autopsy specimen for 1st year medical students (when in Canada), and organ museum spcemts at King Saud Medical School, girls College, Riyadh.
Dermpath training weekly meeting with in-house and in programme dermatology residents.
Weekly Clinicopathological correlation (CPC), with Surgery department, Gastroenterology, pediatric tumor board, and lymphoma tumor board.
Participate in monthly Dermatology Club and Pathology club meeting, in Riyadh.
Participate and supervise the pathology residents weekly case presentation and journal club meetings.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

Fellow of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada since 2000.
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology since 2004.
Participating in Interlaboratory Comparison Programs and Performance Improvement Programs, with Collage of American Pathologists.

Alfaisal University
Master Plan Video