Dr. Imran Mirza MD MS FRCPC FCAP is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and Director of the Division of Molecular Pathology at the University of Alberta Hospital.  He completed his medical education in Pakistan in 1990.  He subsequently obtained a Master of Science degree in Microbiology from George Washington University, for which he did his research work at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Washington, DC).  He did further postgraduate work in Immunology at Hahnemann University (Philadelphia, PA).  He then was trained in Anatomical & Clinical Pathology at Danbury Hospital, a training program affiliated with Yale University (New Haven, CT).  Subsequently, he obtained subspecialty training in Hematopathology from Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH).  He was appointed Assistant Professor in Pathology at the University of Alberta in 2001. 
 
His major area of clinical and research interest is leukemia.  He has a number of abstracts and research papers published to date.  He also has interests in linguistics, poetry, Islamic history, architecture, and music.  He hosts a radio show of east-Indian music on U of A campus radio CJSR FM 88 on Sundays at noon.  The show is called Ragas and Rhythms.

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