Current Sitting President

Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Magi-Galluzzi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she currently holds the Robert and Ruth Anderson Endowed Chair in Pathology in the Heersink School of Medicine.

She received her MD at the University of Ancona, School of Medicine, Italy and her PhD in Oncologic Human Pathology at the University of Verona, Italy. She completed her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago (1997-1999) and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston (1999-2001), followed by a fellowship in Urologic Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (2001-2003). She was on staff at the Cleveland Clinic from 2003 to 2018 and Director of Genitourinary pathology from 2004 to 2018. In October 2018, Dr. Magi-Galluzzi joined the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as Division Director of Anatomic Pathology. On March 4, 2024, Dr. Magi-Galluzzi was appointed Chair of the UAB Department of Pathology.

Her clinical expertise is in the pathological diagnosis of genitourinary diseases, including prostate, bladder, testicular, adrenal and kidney malignancies. Her research interest focuses on prostate carcinogenesis and in the discovery and validation of tumor markers and genomic tests of value in furthering the goals of successful treatment and understanding of the pathogenesis of genitourinary disease. She is the author of numerous (~280) peer-reviewed publications, invited reviews and book chapters, as well as the editor of four books on genitourinary pathology. She has presented and lectured extensively at national and international meetings and has conducted national and international courses, workshops and slide seminars in urological pathology.