According to “Lebanese Weekly Monitor”, issued by Bank Audi, the Lebanese American University (LAU) announced the construction phase of the LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chaghoury School of Medicine, named after his Nigerian-born LAU Board member and businessman and his wife, who donated US$ 13 million to the LAU medical school. The new medical school would be the Lebanon’s seventh licensed medical school.

The US$ 18 million complex, expected to be completed by the year 2010, would span across an area of 12.500 square meters in the LAU Byblos campus, and would house the new medical school and the Alice Ramez Chaghoury School of Nursing.

Furthermore, LAU signed a ten-year collaboration agreement with Harvard Medical International (HMI), the medical consulting arm of Harvard Medical School (HMS). LAU would also partner with Clemenceau Medical Center (CMC), an affiliate of John Hopkins International, and Rafik Hariri University Hospital, for the clinical element of the program.

Established by American Presbyterian missionaries in 1835, LAU offers degrees in arts, sciences, business, engineering, architecture, medicine, and pharmacy. LAU has campuses in Beirut and Byblos and welcomes around 7000 students.