Dr. Al-Kawaaz received his M.D., from the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in 2013.

He completed his residency in Anatomic, Clinical pathology and Fellowship in Hematopathology under the tutelage of Dr. Attilio Orazi, one of the world’s authorities in myeloid malignancies at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2017. Subsequently, He did a second fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at the University of Chicago in 2018.

Dr. Al-Kawaaz is triple board certified in Anatomic, Clinical Pathology and Hematopathology and is board eligible for Molecular Genetic Pathology.

He joined the University Of Louisville Department Of Pathology on July 1, 2019.

His research is primarily focused on genomic alterations and clinicopathologic correlation in hematolymphoid malignancy with emphasis on large B cell lymphoma, chronic T cell neoplasms and myeloid neoplasms.