Dr. Jamal received his medical degree from the Aga Khan University Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his general surgery residency and a fellowship in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Until recently, he was in academic surgery and an associate professor of surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. Jamal is board certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.