Dr. Abir Tawil, MD

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Get to know Pathologist and Cytopathologist Dr. Abir Tawil, who serves the population of Michigan. Dr. Tawil graduated with her Medical Degree from the University of Tripoli in Libya in 1994, giving her over two decades of experience in her field. After obtaining her Medical Degree she relocated to the United States where she completed her Anatomic/Clinical Pathology residency with William Beaumont Hospital. Wanting to further her training she completed her Oncologic Surgical Pathology Fellowship with the Fox Chase Cancer Center followed by her Cytopathology Fellowship with the William Beaumont Hospital. Dr. Tawil is tri-certified in Cytopathology, Anatomic, and Clinical Pathology from the American Board of Pathology. To stay up to date in her field she remains a professional member of the College of American Pathologists, American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Dr. Tawil currently practices with Beaumont Hospital. She attributes her professional success to overcoming the struggle to prove herself after coming from a 3rd world country, and her true love of learning. When not working, she enjoys reading and traveling. Cytopathology is a branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level. Cytopathology is generally used on samples of free cells or tissue fragments, in contrast to histopathology, which studies whole tissues. Cytopathology is commonly used to investigate diseases involving a wide range of body sites, often to aid in the diagnosis of cancer, but also in the diagnosis of some infectious diseases and other inflammatory conditions. For example, a common application of cytopathology is the Pap smear, a screening tool used to detect precancerous cervical lesions which may lead to cervical cancer.

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