Abdelghani Tbakhi

Chairman Department of Cell Therapy & Applied Genomics

Education and Training

MB.BS. (M.D.)
Surgical Pathology; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
Imunopathology; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

Board Certifications

American Board, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
American Board, Immunopathology

Experience

A Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology (Combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and Immunopathology) with 29 years of experience. Trained as a surgical pathology fellow and resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (AP/CP) at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX; in addition to fellowships in Immunopathology and Diagnostic Molecular Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. Moved to Saudi Arabia in 1998 as the Deputy Chairman and Head of Immunopathology & Molecular Genetics, and as the Director of Flow Cytometry Laboratory at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH & RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2007, joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Hôtel-Dieu Grace & Windsor regional Hospital in Windsor Ontario, and joined the faculty (teaching and research) at the newly-established Windsor Campus of Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario as an adjunct professor.
Areas of interest and expertise include Genomics and Molecular Genetic Pathology, Immunopathology, Surgical Pathology (with special expertise in Renal, and Lymph node Pathology), Transplant Pathology, and Flow Cytometry.
Extensive experience in stem cell processing, cord blood banking and applied transplant immunology. Currently, implementing Next Generation Sequencing for Cancer Mutation Panels using Illumina Platform.
Enjoys establishing and effectively utilizing state-of-the-art laboratory ventures (e.g., Laboratory Automation, Molecular Genetic Pathology Core Facility and the first Cord Blood Bank in the Middle East).
Immense contributions to patient care, administration, postgraduate education, and research.
Prolific academician/scientist with 15+ grants, 85+ manuscripts, 2 book chapters and 75+ abstracts.
Serves as Inspection Team Leader for the College of American Pathologists (CAP). Well acquainted with AABB, FACT, JACIE, ASHI and GTP/GMP standards and guidelines.

Professional Memberships

2008: Member, American Society of Transplantation
2007: License to practice Medicine in Ontario
2006: Member, International Society for Stem Cell Research
2002: Member, Saudi Council for Health Specialties
1999: Member, International Society for Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering (ISHAGE)
1998: License to practice Medicine in Ohio
1995: License to practice Medicine in Pennsylvania
1992: Member, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
1992: Member, American Society of Clinical Pathology
1991: Member, College of American Pathologists (Inspector, Team Leader)
1990: Member, Houston Society of Clinical pathologists
1988: License to practice Medicine - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1987: Member, Jordan Medical Association

Awards And Honors

2007: Plaque of Recognition for continued support to the Renal Transplantation Program at KFSH & RC
2007: Recognition as an Outstanding Inspector for the College of American Pathologists for 2006
2006: The Poster Award for Best Visual Presentation, 32nd Annual Meeting of ASHI
2003: Plaque of appreciation for continued support to the Renal Transplantation Program at KFS & HRC
2003: Plaque of appreciation for continued support to Stem Cell Transplantation Program, KFS & HRC
1998: Award of Excellence in Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, Cleveland Clinic
1997: Finalist, Stowel-Orbinson Award (United States and Canada Academy of Pathology)
1996: Finalist, Stowel-Orbinson Award (United States and Canada Academy of Pathology)
1994: Award of Excellence in Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
1993: Best Resident Researcher Award, Department of Pathology, University of Texas, Galveston

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hXx1CdMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Selected Recent Publications (2017-2018):

Yousef YA, Tbakhi A, Al-Hussaini M, AlNawaiseh I, Saab A, Afifi A, Naji M, Mohammad M, Deebajah R, Jaradat I, Sultan I, Mehyar M. Mutational analysis of the RB1 gene and the inheritance patterns of retinoblastoma in Jordan. Fam Cancer. 2017 Aug 12. doi: 10.1007/s10689-017-0027-5
Marc Bierings1, Carmem Bonfim2, Regis Peffault De La Tour3, Mahmoud Aljurf4, Parinda A Mehta5, Cora Knol6, Farid Boulad7, Abdelghani Tbakhi8, Albert Esquirol9, Grant McQuaker10, Gulsan Ayhan Sucak11, Tarek Ben Othman12 Constantijn J.M. Halkes13, Kirsty J Thomson14, Dietger Niederwieser15, Marco Zecca16, Nicolaus Kröger17, Mauricette Michallet18, Antonio M Risitano19, Gerhard Ehninger20, Raphael Porcher21 and Carlo Dufour22. Transplant results in adults with Fanconi anemia. (BJH, published online: 2 NOV 2017)
Dietger Niederwieser, Helen Baldomero, Mahmoud D Aljurf, Syed ZA Zaidi, Shahrukh Hashmi, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, Alaa Elhaddad, Rose-Marie Hamladji, Parvez Ahmed, Miguel Abboud, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Murtadha Al Khabori, Asma El Quessar, Amine Bekadja, Salman adil, Omar Fahmy, Mani Ramzi, Ahmad Ibrahim, Amal Al-Seraihy, Nour Ben Abdeljelil, Mahmoud Sarhan, Mohamed Al Huneini, Lahoucine Mahmal, Hassan El Solh, Fazal Hussain, Amr Nassar, Hani Al-Hashmi, Amir Ali Hamidieh, Marcelo Pasquini, Yoshihisa Kodera, Nicolaus Kröger, Mohamad Mohty, Gregorio Jaimovich, Juliana Martinez Rolon, Kristjan Paulson, Hildegard Greinix, Daniel Weisdorf, Mary Horowitz, José Nunez, Alois Gratwohl, Jakob Passweg, Mickey Koh, Jeff Szer, Nicolas Novitzky, Nosa Bazuaye, and Lamia Torjemane. "Narrowing The Gap for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the East-Mediterranean/African Region: comparison with Global HSCT Indications and Trends." Br J Haematol. 2018 Jan; 180 (1):100-109.
Yousef YA, Tbakhi A, Al-Hussaini M, AlNawaiseh I, Saab A, Afifi A, Naji M, Mohammad M, Deebajah R, Jaradat I, Sultan I, Mehyar M. Mutational analysis of the RB1 gene and the inheritance patterns of retinoblastoma in Jordan. Fam Cancer. 2018 Apr; 17 (2):261-268.
Helen Baldomero1, Mahmoud Aljurf2, Syed ZA Zaidi3, Shahrukh K.Hashmi2, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh4, Alaa Elhaddad5, Rose-Marie Hamladji6, Parvez Ahmed7, Lamia Torjemane8, Miguel Abboud9, Abdelghani Tbakhi10, Murtadha Al Khabori11, Asma El Quessar12, Nosa Bazuaye13, Mohamed Amine Bekadja14, Salman Adil15, Omar Fahmy16, Mani Ramzi17, Ahmed Ibrahim18, Amal Alseraihy2, Nour Ben Abdejalil8, Mahmoud sarhan 10, Mohammed Al Huneini11, Lahoucine Mahmal19, Hassan ElSolh2, Fazal Hussain2, Amr Nassar5, Hani Al-Hashmi20, Amir Ali Hamidieh4, Marcelo Pasquini21, Yoshihisa Kodera22, Nicolaus Kröger23; Mohamed Mothy24; Gregorio Jaimovic25; Jolanda Martinez Rolon26; Kristjan Paulson27, Hildegard Greinix28, Daniel Weisdorf29, Mary Horowitz20, José Nunez30, Alois Gratwohl1, Jacob Passweg1, Jeff Szer31, Dietger Niederwieser32, Nickolas Novitzky33. Narrowing The Gap for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the East-Mediterranean/African Region: comparison with Global HSCT Indications and Trends. A report from the East Mediterranean (EMBMT) and African (AfBMT) Blood and Marrow Transplantation Groups and the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT). Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Aug 6
Khalid Halahleh, Mohammad Ma’koseh, Husam Abu-Jazar, Sameer Yaser, Hani Howar, Mohamad AL-Rawashdeh, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Rula Najjar, Nilly Hussein, Dalia Al-Rimawi, Robert Peter Gale & Mahmoud Sarhan. High-dose chemotherapy and autotransplants for plasma cell myeloma in Jordan. Bone Marrow Transplantation. volume 53, pages1349–1350 (2018)
M. Aljurf, Amr Nassar, S. Hashmi, E. Gluckman3, M. Mohty, D. Rizzo, M. Pasquini, M. Hamadani, W. Saber, M. Kharfan-Dabaja, N. Majhail, U. Gerges, A. AliHamidieh, F. Hussain, Alaa Elhaddad, Hossam Kamel Mahmoud, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Tarek Ben Othman, Rose-Marie Hamladji, Mohamed Amine Bekadja, Parvez Ahmed, Ali Bazarbachi, Salman Adil, Salam Alkindi16, Saloua Ladeb10, David Dennison16, Moosa Patel17, Peihua Lu18, Asma El Quessar19, Ayman Alhejazi20, M. Ayas1, S.O.Ahamed1, N. Novitsky21, Alok Srivastava22, A. Seber23, H. Elsolh1, A. Ghavamzadeh8, D. Confer5, Y. Kodera24, H. Greinix25, D. Weisdorf26, J. Szer27, M. Horowitz5, D. Niederwieser27,28. Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT) Recommendations for Establishing a Hematopoietic Stem cell Transplantation Program in Countries with Limited Resources. (For Submission)
Ian Brooks, Asem Mansour, James Longhurst, Mohammed Odeh, Mario Kossmann, Abdelghani Tbakhi. Analysing Cancer Care Informatics through the Lens of The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - A Review and Assessment," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 4-doi:10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618264- URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618264&isnumber=8618135”
Eman Qaddoumi, Mohammed Odeh, Zaheer Khan, Mario Kossmann, AbdelGhani Tbakhi, Asem Mansour. A Semantically-Enriched Quality Governance Framework for Systems of Systems applied to Cancer Care ," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 15-24. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618263URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618263&isnumber=8618135”
Anas Al-okaily, Niveen Abdullah, Osama Alsmadi, Walid Naser, Farah Alul, Abdelghani Tbakhi. A Pipeline for Variant Calling in Tumor Panels Using Amplicon Sequencing Data," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 48-52.
doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618209
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618209&isnumber=8618135
Iyad Sultan, Anas Al-Okaily, Hasan Hashem, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Osama Alsmadi. Differential Gene Expression to Characterize Spontaneously Regressing Metastatic Neuroblastoma," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 72-72.
doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618204, URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618204&isnumber=8618135”
Yousra Odeh, Saleh Khudirat, Shanta Sharma, Dina Tbaishat, Osama Al-Smadi, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Anas Al-Okaily, Ala Hejazi, Mohammed Odeh. Informing Business Process Models Adherence to Protocols via Business Process Modelling: The Case of Cell Therapy and Applied Genomics in Cancer Care," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 82-99. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618205 - URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618205&isnumber=8618135
Faisal Aburub, Yousra Odeh, Dina Tbaishat, Shanta Sharma, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Mohammed Odeh. Deriving Informational Needs from Process Models: the Case of Cell Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplant Workflow in a Cancer Center Organization," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 110-118. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618228
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618228&isnumber=8618135
Dina Tbaishat, Yousra Odeh, Mohammed Odeh, Abdelghani Tbakhi. Deriving Object-based Business Process Architectures Using Role-based Business Process Models: A Reverse-Engineering Approach Applied to the Cell Therapy and Applied Genomics in a Cancer Care Organisation ," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 119-124. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618214
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618214&isnumber=8618135
Niveen Abdullah, Alia Iqniebi, Mohammaed Odeh, Yousra Odeh, Alaa Hassan, Abdelghani Tbakhi. Towards a Process-Based and Service-Oriented Intelligent Framework for Ig/TCR Clonality Testing in Suspected Lymphoproliferative Neoplasms ," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 165-179. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618180
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618180&isnumber=8618135 Yousra Odeh, Faisal Aburub, Dina Tbaishat, AbdelGhani Tbakhi, Shanta Sharma, Mohammed Odeh. Using Business Process Models to Inform Deriving State Transition Diagrams: Applied to BMT Lab in a Cancer Organization
," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 180-187. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618238
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618238&isnumber=8618135
Lama Abujamous, Osama Alsmadi, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Faten F Kharbat, Mohammed Odeh, Hikmat Abdel-Razeq. Towards Digital Cancer Genetic Counseling," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 188-194.
doi:10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618229 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618229&isnumber=8618135
Ahmad Samhan, Mohammed Odeh, AbdelGhani Tbakhi, Mario Kossmann. Business Process Architecture-driven Change Management Applied to a Cancer Care Organization in a Systems of Systems Context ," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 205-214. doi:10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618170
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618170&isnumber=8618135
Mohammed Odeh, Stewart Green, Mario Kossmann, Dina Tbaishat, AbdelGhani Tbakhi and Asem Mansour. Evaluating the Riva Business Process Architecture Identification Method and its Constituent Heuristics through their Application to a Cancer Care Organisation," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 217-230.
doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618252
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618252&isnumber=8618135”
Osama Alsmadi, Anas Al-okaily, Mohammed Odeh, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Iyad Sultan. Bridging Arabian Mendelian and Complex Diseases Necessitates Utilizing Modern Bioinformatics," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 236-243.
doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618237
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618237&isnumber=8618135
Mohammed Odeh, Yousra Odeh, Nancy Hakooz, Rana Dajani, AbdelGhani Tbakhi, Faten Kharbat, Dina Tbaishat, Iyad Sultan. i.LLL.CancerCare: Towards an Intelligent Life Long Learning Framework for Cancer Care," 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI), Amman, Jordan, 2018, pp. 244-246. doi: 10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618230
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8618230&isnumber=8618135”

Contact Information

Email Address: atbakhi@khcc.jo
Phone Number: 0096265300460\5252