Mohamad Eloubeidi is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama (UAB) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is also the Director of the UAB Endoscopic Ultrasound Program and the Co-Director of the Pancreatic-biliary center. Dr Eloubeidi graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1993 with distinction. Subsequently, he joined Duke University in 1993, where he completed his residency in internal medicine, a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology, and a fellowship in health services research and development earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Research and Investigation. He subsequently spent a year at MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was trained in endoscopic ultrasonography and related technologies; he graduated in 2000. Dr Eloubeidi was subsequently recruited to the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he developed the first Endoscopic Ultrasound Program. The UAB EUS program is currently among the busiest in the country and performs close to 1500 EUS examinations a year.