Mohamad Zakaria Koubeissi, MD, MA, FAAN, FANA, FAES, is Professor and Interim Chair of Neurology, and Director of the Epilepsy Center at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC. Dr Koubeissi earned his BS with Distinction in Mathematics (1995) and his MD (1999) from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. In 2020, he also earned a master's degree in English literature from GWU. After graduating from medical school, he spent a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at AUB before pursuing clinical training in Medicine and Neurology at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY (2000-2002).