Dr. Murad is a Board Certified Gastroenterologist and specialist in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy who has been providing personalized, quality care to patients for over 15 years. Dr. Murad is the Director of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy at GI Partners of Illinois (Northshore Gastroenterology). Dr. Murad previously served as Chief of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy at NorthShore University HealthSystem where he performed hundreds of complex cases. Prior to his time at NorthShore, he was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, and served as Director of EUS Program within the Section of Interventional Endoscopy. During his time there, Dr. Murad co-founded the Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) Program, and performed the first POEM for achalasia in Missouri. 

An expert in his field, he has been published over 50 times around, and has won numerous awards for his work in the field. Dr. Murad is also one of the first Gastroenterology surgeon to perform a minimally invasive, Endoscopic Robot Assisted Submucosal Endoluminal Resection (ERASER) on rectal lesion (in late 2018). Endoluminal resections are a fast-growing area in Gastroenterology because it offers some patients the possibility of removing a polyp or cancer while avoiding a more invasive surgical procedure.

Dr. Murad’s other main areas of interest include management of complications related to Severe Acute Pancreatitis and the management of walled off Pancreatic Necrosis. He also focuses on management of large Endoluminal Lesions (polyps) which require Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) or endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). Dr. Murad also sees a number of patients with surgically altered anatomy (Whipple surgery, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for obesity) who benefit greatly from his technical expertise. Beyond complex Endoscopy, Dr. Murad also focuses on treating patients for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Colorectal Cancer Screening (colonoscopy), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and gut health (nutrition and placement of feeding tubes).

Dr. Murad attended medical school at Trinity College Dublin, and attended the University of Minnesota for Internal Medicine and his GI Fellowship. Upon completion, he was accepted to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN for his Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship, working with some of the premier interventional endoscopists in the country. 

Dr. Murad accepts multiple insurance plans, and is currently accepting new patients.