Prof. Medhat Askar, MD, PhD is a laboratory medicine physician scientist. He currently serves as the Clinical Advisor, Vice President for Medical & Health Sciences Office and Professor of Immunology at Qatar University’s College of Medicine and head of the Division of Clinical and Transplantation Immunology at Hamad Medical Corporation. He also serves as a Clinical Professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine and the Advisor for Clinical Services at The US National Marrow Donor Program. He is the Chair of the WHO Committee of The Transplantation Society, a Board Member of the Worldwide Network for Blood & Marrow Transplantation and a lifetime Councilor of the International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshops. Previously he served as President of The American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics and The American Board of the Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics