Medical Director

ALI K. RIBA M.D.

BOARD CERTIFIED IN ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY

ACTIVE LICENSES: * NJ, IL and CT

EDUCATION:

July 1, 2004-Present: Assistant Professor, Full time Faculty, Attending Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, CT.

July 1, 2003- June 30, 2004: Instructor, Full time Faculty, Attending Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, CT.

July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003: One year of surgical pathology fellowship at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Program Director: Stuart D. Flynn, MD. Tel: (203) 785-6424

July 1,1998-June 30, 2002: Four years of Pathology residency at St. Barnabas Health Care System, an ACGME-accredited, Combined, Four-year postgraduate AP/CP training program. It is an integrated program with structured rotations at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center, and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

June 1, 1997- May 20, 1998: Research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Supervised by: Monroe Karetzky, MD, Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Units.

Jan 23, 1995-Nov 30, 1997: Two years of lab experience at Lifechem Lab (Spectra East) in Rockleigh, NJ.

Externship:

One month at Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio, 1995.
Two months at Cabrini Medical Center. New York City, New York, Feb-April 1996.
Nov 1, 1989- Jan 5, 1995: General Practice in a private clinic, Syria.
Nov 11, 1987- Nov 11, 1989: Two years of postgraduate medical training in Syria.
Sept 5, 1981-Aug 23, 1987: Tishreen University, Faculty of Medicine, Lattakia, Syria. Degree: MD. Diploma.
Sept 15, 1980-July 10, 1981: High School Diploma, Lattakia, Syria.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Chief Resident/Fellow at Yale University, New Haven, CT for the year 2002-2003
• Administrative Chief Resident at St. Barnabas Health Care System for the year 2001-2002
• Graduated medical school in the Top 25.
• Student of the year in a grammar, middle, and high schools. Elected to several positions including Student Affairs Chairman.

RESEARCH EXPIERIENCE:

Enterobserverer Variability of Lobular Neoplasia Y. K. Choi, MD; M. M. Pinto, MD; L. Hao, MD; and A.K. Riba, MD Departments of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT A platform presentation at the 2006 USCAP Annual Meeting, February 11-17, in Atlanta, GA

Comparative Genomic Hybridization Study of Placental Site Trophoblastic Tumor: A Report of Four Cases. Pei Hui, Ali K. Riba, Tanja Pejovic, Tulin Johnson, Rebecca N. Baergen and David Ward Department of Pathology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of medicine, New Haven, CT. Department of Pathology, Weil Medical College of Cornell University. Modern Pathology (2004) 17, 248-251

Estrogen Receptor-beta Expression and Recurrence of Endometrial Cancer Ali K. Riba, Billur Z Senturk, Hassan Nayer, Frank F. Luo*, Vinita Parkash, and Wenxin Zheng, Departments of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, and University of California at Los Angeles*, CA A platform presentation at the 2003 USCAP Annual Meeting, March 22-28, in Washington, DC.

Biosite Cardiac Marker levels on first samples to triage patients in the Emergency Department S.J. Baptist, MD; A.K. Riba, MD; and S. Albuquerque MD St. Barnabas Medical Center. A poster presentation at the 2004 CAP annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Adult presentation of intussusception. A collaborated Surgery-Pathology project. A poster was presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. February, 2002. Supervised by S. Feldman, MD and J. F. Lara, MD. St. Barnabas Medical Center.

Endometriosis: Unusual Presentations for the General Surgeon. A collaborated Surgery-Pathology Project. A poster was presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 4-6, 2001. Supervised by S. Feldman, MD and A. Adesokan, MD. St. Barnabas Medical Center.

Calcium Oxalate versus Calcium Phosphate in benign breast lesions. A collaborated Radiology-Pathology Project. An Abstract submitted to The New York Path Society, December 2000. Supervised by L. Kalisher, MD and J.F. Lara, MD. St. Barnabas Medical Center.

Major Obstacles of Thrombolytic Treatment in Ischemic Stroke Patients Without Preexisting Contraindications. An Abstract presented at The New Jersey Chapter of The Society of Critical Care Medicine, October 8-9, 1998. Supervised by M. Karetzky, MD. Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Non-Traumatic Surgical Emergencies. A graduation thesis. Supervised by M. Mouhanna, MD.