Fedaa Najdawi, MBBS/MD, FCAP

Dr. Fedaa Najdawi is a gastrointestinal pathologist and clinical informatician specializing in digital diagnostics, AI-enabled workflows, and enterprise laboratory information systems. She serves as the Medical Director of Informatics and Digital Pathology within the Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, and as a Clinical Informatics Director in HealthIT at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In these roles, she leads institution-wide transformation efforts, including digital pathology deployment, Epic Beaker implementation, LIS modernization, and interoperability strategy.

Nationally, Dr. Najdawi serves on the College of American Pathologists Artificial Intelligence Committee, the Digital Pathology Association Creative Content Committee, and the USCAP Finance Committee. She is the AI Section Editor for Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. Her research focuses on computational pathology, histologic biomarker discovery, and validation of AI models in inflammatory bowel disease and cancer. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and is an invited speaker at USCAP, ASCP, Harvard Medical School, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, and other international meetings.

Dr. Najdawi completed gastrointestinal/liver and surgical pathology fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, pathology residency at UMass, and earlier surgical and pathology training in Australia. She is board-certified in Anatomic Pathology, licensed in the U.S. and Australia, and recognized as an ASCP 40 Under 40 emerging leader. Her work is dedicated to advancing safe, effective, and equitable integration of digital pathology and clinical AI in modern healthcare.