A/Prof El-Khoury is a consultant surgeon in General, Colorectal and Laparoscopic surgery.

He was awarded the Mitchell J Notaras Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery for three consecutive years, to undertake advanced training in colorectal surgery. This was awarded to him by the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand and the University of Sydney.

In 2008, he completed his research at the Surgical Outcome Research Centre. He obtained his Masters of Surgery from the University of Sydney in 2009. A/Prof El-Khoury’s advanced clinical training in colorectal surgery was completed at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and the John Goligher Colorectal Unit in the United Kingdom.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Medicine – University of Notre Dame (UNDA) and a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He is a member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Surgical Lead for the School of UNDA at Norwest and Lakeview Private Hospitals. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Australasian (FRACS) and the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He served on the RACS NSW Regional Committee and was one of its Executive Members.

He has a special interest in minimally invasive surgery, inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer.