Kmeid joined the department on August 1, 2025, from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, where he served as a head and neck pathology fellow since 2024.

 

In his new role, Kmeid will work with the PA supervisor to ensure smooth day-to-day operations in the gross room to improve workflow, update templates as needed and ensure consistent quality operations. He will coordinate with other pathologists to identify and improve gross pathology and frozen section activities.  

 

Kmeid earned his medical degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2013. He completed five years of residency training in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Sacred Heart University Hospital, Lebanese University, in 2018. He served as chief resident from 2015 to 2017. In his fifth year of residency training, Kmeid earned a diploma of specialized medical formation in otolaryngology from Toulouse University Hospitals at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.

 

Kmeid completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency training in 2023 at Albany Medical Center in New York where he served as chief resident in his final two years. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in gastrointestinal, hepatic and pancreatobiliary pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2024, before pursuing a fellowship in head and neck pathology.

 

Kmeid assumes the position from previous medical director, Sarah Anderson, D.O., an assistant professor in the Division of Forensics, who served in the role since January 2024.