Faculty Profile

Aya Abu-El-Haija, MD, MPH

Attending Physician
Instructor in Pediatrics

Cancer genetics and prevention.

Dr. Aya Abu-El-Haija is an Attending Physician in the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital. She completed her Medical Genetics fellowship from the University of California San Francisco. She did her Pediatrics residency at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Rutgers). Dr. Haija has a great interest and expertise in the various genetic syndromes, chromosomal deletions or duplications, single gene disorders, developmental delays, congenital birth defect, learning disability, overgrowth syndromes, and has particular interest in the various tumor predisposition syndromes. Dr. Haija is enthusiastic to see patients from various race/ethnic backgrounds, is bilingual in Arabic and English, and has some Spanish and French knowledge.

Dr. Abu-El-Haija sees patients in clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program.

Affiliations

Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School