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​Dr. Irfan is a Consultant at the Department of Pathology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He graduated from Armed Forces Medical College (India) in 2012 and underwent Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification. He did his post graduate Residency and Senior Residency Training in Anatomical Pathology at the National University Health System, Singapore. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Pathologists of UK and Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. In addition, he has also completed Certificate of Higher Cervical Cytopathology Training (CHCCT), conducted by the Royal college of Pathologists (UK).

He has been a staff pathologist in the department since 2021. His sub-speciality interests are in Pulmonary and Molecular Pathology, for which he intends to undergo further training. He also keeps upto date with latest evidence-based medicine practices and has contributed to this through multiple international peer-reviewed scientific journal publications. He has also presented at both local and overseas workshops/conferences.

Dr. Irfan is passionate about teaching and participates in the postgraduate residency training program as core clinical faculty member.

Appointments:

NHG Pathology Core Clinical Faculty Member and NHG Physician Faculty.

NHG Pathology Program Evaluation Committee and NHG Pathology Clinical Competency Committee Member.

Publications:

1. Intra-abdominal pulmonary sequestration: a rare diagnostic pitfall on eus-fna (doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2019.08.008). (pathology, oct 2019)
2. Amyloid and hyaline globules in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (doi:10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2019.02.016) (annals of diagnostic pathology, jun 2019).
3. Primary adrenal angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma with novel ewsr1-atf1 gene fusion exon-exon breakpoint (doi: 10.1177/1093526619830287) (paediatric and developmental pathology, 2019).
4. A solitary urothelial tumor arising from one of bilateral ureteroceles (doi: 10.1590/s1677-5538.ibju.2017.0087) (international brazilian journal of urology, sep-oct, 2017).
5. Solitary vertebral metastasis of primary clear cell carcinoma of the liver: a case report and review of literature (doi: 10.21037/jss.2017.06.06) (journal of spine surgery, june 2017).​