Hometown: Baghdad

Medical School: Baghdad University College of Medicine

What Makes Central Arkansas a Great Place to Live: Nature, hiking, lots of biking trails, people, simplicity of life, and less traffic

Why I love the Baptist Health-UAMS Internal Medicine Program: Supportive faculty, wonderful colleagues and friends, diversity of patients, commitment of everybody to teach and train residents to become excellent physicians in the future.

Future Plans: Hospitalist

The One Thing I Want People to Know About Me: Most of the times I have “Plan B” for everything I do

Best Advice I Was Ever Given: Treat others the same way you want to be treated

What I Do For Fun: Playing video games (PS5 online or story modes) and Nintendo Switch (with my 2 sons). I also enjoy road cycling and mountain biking with my beautiful wife.

Last Great Binge Watch: Making a Murderer (Netflix Documentary)

Best Recent Local Discovery: Cedar Glades Mountain Biking Trails in Hot Springs

Research/Scholarship: Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt Certified)