Biography

Dr. Koury was born in rural Arkansas.  He did his undergraduate work at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and obtained his doctorate in medicine from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  He completed a general surgery residency at University Hospital/Rutgers University in Newark, NJ.  He went on to obtain advanced training in minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.  He then entered practice as a minimally invasive surgeon and performed a variety of elective an emergent, advanced laparoscopic procedures.  After being in practice for several years, he realized that advances in surgical techniques were rapidly occurring.  It became obvious that in order to keep up with the changing technology and most importantly to provide the best patient care, he needed to subspecialize.  Dr. Koury realized that his true passion was colon and rectal surgery and he was accepted into the Colon and Rectal Surgery fellowship  at Thomas Jefferson University.