**Meet the editor**

Dr. Doaa Hashad is an associate professor in the Clinical Pathology Department, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt. She obtained her masters in clinical pathology in 2001 and her MD in clinical pathology from the University of Alexandria in 2007. Dr. Doaa Hashad has many publications to her credit in international, peer-reviewed journals concerning the use of variable

molecular techniques in the management of different diseases.
