AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT FACULTY OF MEDICINE & MEDICAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE MEMORANDUM TO: DATE: May 18, 2015 All Medical Staff and Students FROM: Fuad N. Ziyadeh, MD, FACP, FRCP Professor & Chairperson Department of Internal Medicine SUBJECT: The Appointment of: Dr. Yasser Shaib It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Dr. Yasser Shaib as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, subspecialty Gastroenterology, in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Yasser Shaib received his M.D. degree from the American University of Beirut in 1995 and completed his Internal Medicine residency training at New York Medical College in 1999. He then completed his specialty fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of New Mexico in 2001 and spent another year in Advanced Endoscopic Training. He also earned a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of New Mexico in 2003. He is American Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. In 2003, Dr. Shaib was recruited as Assistant Professor of Medicine to Baylor College of Medicine and in 2010 was promoted to Associate Professor. Before moving to AUB, he was Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Administration Medical Center in Houston, Texas and Director of Endoscopic Ultrasound at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been actively involved in teaching and was the Associate Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program and the Director of Advanced Endoscopy Training Program at Baylor. Dr Shaib is widely published in the medical literature. His research interests include gastrointestinal oncology, interventional endoscopy and pancreatic diseases. He is an active member of multiple professional committees and is fellow of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Selected among ‘Best Doctors’ in the USA, Dr. Shaib specializes in advanced endoscopic interventions including biliary endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound and endoscopic management of gastrointestinal neoplasia. Dr. Shaib will be involved in teaching, research and clinical activities of the Department of Internal Medicine, and will be actively engaged in all the academic and clinical services of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology including being Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program. Dr. Shaib will be seeing patients in his private clinic. He can be reached at his office W-819 at AUBMC (extension 7299), in clinic (extension 5800), at beeper # 0403, and by e-mail: [email protected] Please join me in warmly welcoming Dr. Yasser Shaib to the AUB community.