M.D., University of Khartoum, School of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan, 1994.
Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007.

Residency/Fellowship: Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt (internal medicine), 1995-1996; St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (nephrology), 1997-1999; (internal medicine), 1999-2001; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (postdoctoral fellowship, nephrology), 2001-2005.

Certified by the American Board of Nephrology.

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, associate research scientist (faculty), Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Nephrology, 2005-2008; The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, 2008-2021; Associate Professor of Medicine, 2021.

Appointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic, 2022; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2023-present; Joint appointment, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, 2025-present.