He earned his bachelor's degree with honors in mathematics (1995) and his medical degree (1999) from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. He spent a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at AUB before he pursued his clinical training in neurology at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York (2000-2002) and at New York University in New York, New York (2002-2004) and in epilepsy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (2004-2006).