Jaime Samour graduated with Honours from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veracruz University, Mexico in 1978. After a brief period of time in El Salvador, working in private practice, he returned to Veracruz and became an Associate Professor. In 1981, Jaime traveled to London to study and conduct research projects in reptile and avian medicine at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London. He received his Doctorate degree in Avian Reproductive Biology from the Royal College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of London in 1987. Immediately afterward, Jaime moved to the Middle East where he has worked ever since, first in the Kingdoms of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and finally in the United Arab Emirates. Jaime has edited five textbooks, written 17 chapters in different textbooks on exotic animal and avian medicine, and more than 225 articles in Magazines and International Journals. Jaime received an Award for his outstanding contribution to the field of Zoological Medicine from the British Veterinary Zoological Society - Parke-Davies - Upjohn in 1998 and the Veterinarian of the Year Award by Ted Lafeber in 2006. Jaime earned the status of Specialist from the European College of Zoological Medicine in the specialty of avian medicine in 2004 and became Professor of Medicine of Raptors at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Parma, Italy, in 2018. Jaime became a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Biology based in London, England in 2018.