Osama is currently working as an Upper GI surgeon at West Herts NHS Trust and a researcher and founder of the ‘Imperial Obesity Study Syndicate’. He studied medicine initially in the Middle East and moved to the United Kingdom for Basic and Higher Surgical Training. He worked in numerous national centres, including Liverpool, Newcastle, and Scotland, before settling in North West London at Imperial College, Chelsea, Royal Marsden and University College London Hospitals. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Meanwhile, Osama completed his Medical Doctorate in Research in 2020. His research was based on metabolic health in obesity using large UK-based databases using heavily several statistical packages, including SPSS, R and PRISMA.