Mercedes Ficarra M.D.

Dr. Mercedes Ficarra, who joins the Department as an Associate Professor, received her medical degree at the Facultad de Medicina of the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain in 1988. She completed her Pathology residency and Cytopathology fellowship at Tulane. Board certified in Cytopathology, and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, she worked in various capacities as a pathologist and a director of laboratory within the HCA system before she joined us on September 15th.

Dr. Ibrahim Aburiziq joins the Department as an Assistant Professor on October 2nd. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the American University of Beirut (1993), and MBBS from Jordan University of Science and Technology (2003). He completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Baylor University Medical Center (2012), and fellowships in Hematology (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2014) and in Surgical Pathology (Washington University School of Medicine, 2015). He has provided general pathology services and laboratory directorship in several hospitals in Guam, and Savannah, GA before he joined the Tulane.

Taylor MacGowan, M.S., P.A. (ASCP), received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (2018), and graduated from the Pathologists’ Assistant Program at Tulane University School of Medicine (2022). Ms. MacGowan has worked as a Pathology Technician (Boston Children’s Hospital, 2020), and a Grossing Technician at Quantum Pathology in Waltham, MA (2018-2020). She joins the Pathology faculty on Oct 9th as an Instructor.