M.D., Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 1991.
M.Sc., Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

Residency/Fellowship: University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, Calif. (general psychiatry), 2002-2005; University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, Calif., (mood disorder research fellowship), 2005-2007; Huntington Memorial Research Institute, Pasadena, Calif. (brain imaging research fellowship), 2007-2010; Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minn. (addiction psychiatry clinical fellowship), 2010-2011.

Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and Addiction Psychiatry.

Los Angeles County Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif., consultant, Psychiatric Emergency Room, 2004-2010; University of Southern California (USC) Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif., Director of Consult Psychiatry Service, 2007-2010; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., associate consultant, Clinical/Research, Division of Consultation, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, 2011-2012; National Institutes of Health, Baltimore and Bethesda, Md., staff physician, Neuroimaging Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2014-2021.

Appointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, 2012; Senior Associate Consultant, Clinical/Research, Division of Consultation, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, 2012-2014; Reappointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic in Arizona, 2021; Joint appointment, Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2021-present; Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2022-present.