Michel Kmeid, M.D., will join the Division of Anatomic Pathology as an assistant professor, effective August 1. Kmeid joins us from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, where he served as a head and neck pathology fellow since 2024.

Kmeid earned his medical degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2013. He completed five years of residency training in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Sacred Heart University Hospital, Lebanese University, in 2018. He served as chief resident from 2015 to 2017. In his fifth year of residency training, Kmeid earned a diploma of specialized medical formation in otolaryngology from Toulouse University Hospitals at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.

Kmeid completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency training in 2023 at Albany Medical Center in New York where he served as chief resident in his final two years. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in gastrointestinal, hepatic and pancreatobiliary pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2024, before pursuing a fellowship in head and neck pathology.

As a trainee, Kmeid received several academic awards, including first place in the 2021 Hans Popper Hematopathology Society Trainee Best Abstract Award, and Best Scientific Practice Poster Award at the American Society of Clinical Pathologists 2020 Annual Meeting.

Since 2014, Kmeid has taught otolaryngology, head and neck anatomy, histology and pathology to medical students, residents and fellows. He has authored more than 25 publications and given more than 16 oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences. Kmeid is affiliated with several professional societies, including United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and American Society for Clinical Pathology.