Ibrahim Choucair

Ibrahim Choucair, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kentucky.

• Affiliation: University of Kentucky College of Medicine
• Email: Ibrahim.Choucair@uky.edu

Research Interests

Dr. Choucair's research focuses on mass spectrometry applications in clinical toxicology, including opioid detection, drug compliance analysis, and sample contamination diagnostics. He also investigates gut microbiota-mediated metabolism of bile acids and polyphenols in relation to diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic diseases.

Publications

His recent work includes chromatography-free mass spectrometry techniques for rapid clinical testing, trimester-specific haptoglobin reference intervals in pregnancy, and gut microbial modulation of hepatic steatosis. His studies bridge analytical chemistry, metabolomics, and clinical diagnostics.