He is a member of the following medical societies:
- Alpha Omega Alpha, honor medical society (AOA)
- American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
- American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
- American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
Education and Training:
- Medical School: American University of Beirut
- Residency: Duke University, Internal Medicine
- Fellowship #1: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Gastroenterology/Hepatology
- Fellowship #2: New York University (NYU) Langone, Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
Procedures Offered:
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
- Colonoscopy
- Percutaneous gastrostomy tube placement (PEG)
- Wireless Ph manometry probe placement
- Enteroscopy
- Ileoscopy
- Endoscopic dilation, banding, polypectomy, bleeding management including advanced hemostasis
- Barrett's esophagus treatment including radiofrequency ablation
- Endoluminal stenting
- Advanced endoscopic resections including endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), and endoscopic full thickness resection (EFTR)
- Endoscopic suturing
- Endoscopic per oral myotomy (POEM)
- Cricopharyngeal myotomy
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) including biliary stone management, cholangioscopy, lithotripsy, intraductal radiofrequency ablation, and pancreatic endotherapy
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Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) including
- Staging of esophageal, gastric, ampullary, duodenal, pancreatic, and rectal cancer
- Fine needle aspiration/biopsy
- Celiac plexus neurolysis
- Fiducial placement
- EUS cyst-gastrostomy/endoscopic necrosectomy