Dr. Ibrahim Melki graduated in 1982 with honors from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where he majored in psychology. He received his medical degree from the same university in 1986. He then went on to complete his full general surgery training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where he was given the Harwell Wilson award for excellence in surgery, and finished a 2 year fellowship in Plastic Surgery at the same center.
Dr. Melki has received extensive training in all aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and founded the "Melki Plastic Surgery" clinic in 1997 in Beirut.