Dr Skouri is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine-Cardiology and a Heart Failure specialist based at American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), Beirut. He is currently the Director of the Cardiac Care Unit, director of Samir Alam Heart Failure Unit and the Heart Failure Program and Coordinator of the cardio-oncology service at AUBMC as well as the co chairman of the heart failure working group at the Lebanese Society of Cardiology (LSC). He is member of several cardiac and heart failure societies as well as member of several committees. He has spent almost two decades building his knowledge in heart disease treatment and care. He notably completed a two year fellowship in heart failure and transplantation at Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio. In Beirut, Dr. Skouri has led the development of the Advanced Heart Failure program at AUBMC, in addition to serving (currently) as a key member of several committees of Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology including the Acute Heart failure committee, the National Heart Failure Societies committee, cardiomyopathy committee, heartfailure matters committee, Cardio renal and cardio-oncology study groups at HFA. He led the first Left Ventricular Assist device (LVAD) in Lebanon and the Arab region in 2009. He also had led the Arabic translation of the website heartfaiurematters.org, the largest HF educational website.