Walid A. Mufarrij, M.D., F.A.C.S. was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1949 to an internist and a homemaker. He earned his BS in Biology in 1969 and his M.D. in 1973 from the American University Of Beirut. He then moved to Baltimore for his residency in General Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital..