Kamran Mirza is a Clinical Professor Pathology (Hematopathology) at Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan) where he serves as the Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology Education, Assistant Chair for Education, and Director of the Division of Training Programs and Communication.

Dr. Mirza graduated with academic distinction and as recipient of the "Rivaz Gold Medal" for overall excellence from Aitchison College in Lahore, Pakistan in 1998. He completed medical school at the prestigious, independent, research University - Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan in 2003. He completed his Ph.D. thesis work under Professor Asrar B. Malik, PhD, the Schweppe Family Distinguished Professor and Director for the Center of Lung and Vascular Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. He continued his training at the University of Chicago, where he completed an AP /CP Pathology residency. During this time, he was selected to be Chief Resident and won several awards including pathologist-in-training awards from the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Society for Ultrastructural Pathology, a young investigator award from the Society of Cardiovascular Pathology and the A. James McAdams Study Stipend from the Society for Pediatric Pathology. He continued his training at the University of Chicago and received fellowship training in hematopathology (under the supervision of Dr. James Vardiman) and thoracic pathology (under the supervision of Dr. Aliya Husain). Given his passion for medical education, he completed a fellowship in Medical Education Research, Innovation, Teaching & Scholarship (MERITS) at the University of Chicago.

An award winning educator and mentor, Dr. Mirza has been the recipient of several dozen local, regional and national teaching awards. He was inducted in the inaugural group of the Association of Pathology Chairs Academy of Distinguished Pathology Educators in 2023. He is the recipient of the 2023 ASCP Michele Raible Named Lectureship. 2022 Association of Pathology Chairs Michele Raible Award for Distinguished Education, the 2021 American Society for Clinical Pathology's H. P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator, the 2021 College of American Pathologists Pathology Advancement Award, the 2020 CAP Resident Advocate Award, and the 2019 ASCP Mentorship Award. In 2020, he received both the regional and national M. Brownell Anderson Award for New and Emerging Educators by the Central Group on Educational Affairs (CGEA), the Midwest education group within the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The American Society of Clinical Pathology recognized him as a Top 5 Forty Under Forty honoree in 2017 and he was a recent faculty inductee to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society via Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. Mirza has been recognized in The Pathologist magazine's Power List 100 consecutively for the past 6 years and he is one of the top 10 most followed Pathologists on Twitter/X.

Dr. Mirza spearheaded the creation of PathElective.com, a free, modular website that has provided pathology education to over 150,000 users with over 1.2 million views across the world. In efforts of advancing pathology, he has also co-founded the ASCP's Virtual Pathology Grand Rounds, the PathPod podcast, www.hemereports.com, and the Digital Communications Fellowship in Pathology in partnership with the Pathologist magazine. He is the Chair of the CGEA and a member of the APC UMEDs council. He is an Associate Editor of the American Society of Hematology's Image Bank and serves on the advisory boards of "Inside the Match" and "Match to Path" platforms. He has been honored with several institutional teaching and education awards at the medical student and resident level and continues to explore novel ways to impart pathology pedagogy across the world. Dr. Mirza's research focuses on ethics in pathology, molecular pathogenesis of myeloid malignancies, novel pedagogical tools in medical education, the advancement of interprofessional education, and use of social media for pathology education