Dr. Basil Ammori graduated with MB ChB degree from Baghdad University, Iraq in 1986. He undertook his surgical training in the UK, completed an MD degree from Leeds University and his CCST in 2000, and became a Consultant Laparoscopic, Bariatric and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeon in Manchester, UK 2000-2017. He joined King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan as a Gastrointestinal Surgeon in November 2017. He was granted a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2000 and appointed as Honorary Professor of Surgery at Manchester University, UK in 2011. He has over 170 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals.