"Trainee to Leadership: Serendipity, Plan or Vision"

Amyn Rojiani, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Division of Anatomic Pathology)

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Dr. Amyn M. Rojiani was appointed chair of the Department of Pathology at the College of Medicine on May 1, 2021.

Prior to joining the College, Rojiani served as the chair of pathology and held the E. R. Pund Distinguished Professorship at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University since 2010. He also was the clinical service chief of pathology for Augusta University Health System, which includes Augusta University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Georgia. Previously, he spent 12 years at University of South Florida Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and seven years at University of Florida Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville.

Rojiani’s research interests have included demyelination, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular targeting agents and matrix interactions in lung cancer. An avid educator, he is engaged in undergraduate and graduate medical education, is a survey visitor for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and has directed multiple national meeting courses, workshops and teleconferences on topics ranging from neuropathology to microaggressions. Among the multiple awards he has won for leadership, teaching and research is the five-year Georgia Cancer Coalition’s Distinguished Cancer Clinician and Scholar Award.

A Certified Physician Executive and Fellow of the American Association for Physician Leadership, Rojiani is the Leadership Development and Diversity Committee chair for the Association of Pathology Chairs and a member of the association’s executive council. After graduating from Sind Medical College, University of Karachi in Pakistan, he completed a doctorate in experimental pathology and an anatomic pathology residency at the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. Rojiani also trained in adult and pediatric neuropathology at Vancouver General Hospital and BC Children’s Hospital, both in Vancouver, British Columbia.