Walid F. Makdisi, M.D., a native of Beirut, Lebanon, earned his Bachelor of Science degree and the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut.

He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and a clinical and research fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Connecticut. He held appointments as a faculty member in the division of Gastroenterology at the University of Kansas, and practiced in Missouri for about ten years. He joined Gastroenterology Associates of Tidewater in 2005.