Dr Raed Simhairi, Clinical Microbiologist, is a medical graduate of Al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, Iraq. His post-graduate training in pathology also began in Baghdad where, after completing a Masters degree in Medical Microbiology, he combined a University teaching role with a career in private pathology. Following hospital appointments in Brisbane and Sydney and the completion of his FRCPA, Dr Simhairi joined Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology as a Clinical Microbiologist in 2009. His long experience and broad knowledge extend the consultative service we are able to offer in the fields of infectious disease and diagnostic microbiology. Dr. Simhairi also has an appointment as Adjunct Lecturer in Pathology, at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame.