Specialists who listen first

Founding physician & medical director

Dr. Nidal Elbaridi, MD

Before Dr. Elbaridi was a physician, he was a Licensed Physical Therapist. Before he founded Loop Medical Center, he survived a near-fatal accident. Those two facts shaped everything about how this practice was built.

The time he spent as a physical therapist gave him a clinical perspective on pain and recovery that most interventional physicians don’t have. The accident gave him something harder to teach: firsthand knowledge of what it feels like to need care and have to trust someone completely to get it right.

He went on to complete his Interventional Pain Management Fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an ACGME-accredited program. When he founded Loop Medical Center, he brought that standard into a practice designed around the patient experience he had not always seen in the system he trained in.

“My vision to provide safe and effective treatments for my patients became a reality with the founding of Loop Medical Center. Loop Medical Center is now a group of medical practices that follow evolving technology and increased patient demands.”

Training & credentials

• Anesthesiologist and interventional pain physician
• Interventional pain fellowship, Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2016)
• Anesthesiology residency, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County (2015)
• MD, Ross University School of Medicine (2010)
• Former licensed physical therapist (B.S., Indiana University, 1997)
• Harvard Medical School phlebology training (2015)
• Medtronic VenaSeal and radiofrequency ablation certification (2019)
• Boston Scientific Varithena certification (2023)

Areas of focus