Professor Shobeiri is the System Chief of Gynecology for the INOVA Health System in Falls Church, Virginia, USA which is ranked #6 in Gynecology by US World News.
He obtained his Bachelor degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, MD from TUFTS University in Boston, and completed his residency and fellowship at Tulane and LSU in New Orleans.
Dr. Shobeiri has been the recipient of research and educational awards. He has been a grant reviewer for ACOG, AUGS, IUGA and American Federation for Aging Research. He is a manuscript reviewer for Urology, Journal of Urogynology & pelvic floor Dysfunction, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurourology & Urodynamics, and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. He has authored >200 articles in scientific journals as well as numerous chapters for textbooks standard to the field of Urogynecology. He is the editor of several textbooks standard to the field of Urogynecology: Practical Pelvic Floor Ultrasonography: A Multicompartmental Approach to 2D/3D/4D Ultrasonography of Pelvic Floor (2nd Edition 2017), and The Innovation and Evolution of Medical Devices: Vaginal Mesh Kits (2019). He has chaired ultrasound workshops at the International Continence Society (ICS), International urogynecological Association (IUGA), and multiple institutions around the world. Additionally he has served on the Research and the Program committees at AUGS and IUGA. He was the Chair of AUGS Mesh SIG at AUGS. His primary clinical and research has been elucidating the pathophysiology of birth related pelvic floor injury using 3D ultrasound and surgical repair. Dr. Shobeiri's expertise in levator ani repair after childbirth draws patients for evaluation. During the emergence of vaginal mesh kits complications in the late 2000s, his studies and lectures greatly advanced the course of patient safety.
