Medical Degree - Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan
Medical Internship - Prince Basma Teaching Hospital in Irbid, Jordan
Transitional Internal Medicine Residency - King Abdulla University Hospital in Ramtha, Jordan
Internal Medicine Residency - Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. 
Cardiology Fellowship - Seton Hall University/St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, NJ. 
Interventional Cardiology Fellowship - Maimonides Medicale Center in Brooklyn, NY

09/2007- 11/2007 -Northwestern University Chicago, IL
Research Assistant, Richi Arora
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Autonomic System: Role of sympathetic and parasympathetic systems through G-proteins associated pathways in genesis of AF, esp. posterior left atrium and pulmonary veins. In our project we were studying inhibiting G-protein coupled receptors, which are part of the cholinergic and adrenergic pathways, and the effect on ion channels current, excitation-contraction coupling Ca dynamics, and subsequently on AF.

St. Michael’s Medical Center
Comparison of Multaq to Amiodarone in prevention of post CABG Atrial Fibrillation: studying the effects of using Dronedarone instead of Amiodarone in prevention of post CABG AF and comparing that to Amiodarone, regarding efficacy, safety. This study is still in progress.

St. Michael’s Medical Center
Inaccurate sensing continues to be a problem in ICD functioning, leading to inappropriate shocks, with their psychological impact and possible fatal consequences. Optisense came as an alternative atrial lead with less ventricular farfield sensing and less inappropriate mode switching. We sought to study using Optisense lead in a ventricular position and its impact on R wave amplitude. This was accepted by Seton Hall Annual Research Colloquium and we are still recruiting more patients to increase the number of participants.

St. Michael’s Medical Center
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common comorbidity in heart failure (HF). Previous studies, limited in size and duration, have examined AF burden in HF patients receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). These studies, however, have failed to evaluate and isolate the impact of long-term CRT on AF burden. The objectives of this analysis are to determine if CRT patients with no prior history of AF had a reduction in AF burden over time and compare AF burden between ICD and CRT-D patients.

ACP Regional Meeting, Chicago 2007 – Late presentation of Takayasu Arteritis in a Hispanic
female with multiple dissecting aneurysms.

ACP Regional Meeting, Chicago 2007 – Medical jeopardy contest

American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Cardiovascular Disease
American Board of Interventional Cardiology
American Board of Echocardiography
American Board of Nuclear Cardiology