Dr. Haggiagi graduated with highest honors from the University of Al-Fateh School of Medicine in Tripoli, Libya. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia, under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Shelanski, where her research focused on the biochemical and genetic changes in neurofibrillary tangle predominant dementia. Dr. Haggiagi pursued her medicine internship at Westchester Medical Center, followed by neurology residency here at Columbia. After residency, she completed a two-year fellowship in Neuro-Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she remained as an attending physician and investigator, prior to returning to CUIMC this week.