Dr. Zaid A. Al-Duri undertook most of his medical studies in University of Baghdad but then he moved to Egypt where he pursued the study of the final year in the Cairo University Medical School. He graduated in October 1975 with a "very good mark." In the year 1977 he traveled to the United Kingdom and started a long programme of rotation in accident and emergency, general surgery and orthopedic surgery and fractures. In the 1990 he acquired a Master of Science Degree in Orthopedic surgery from the London University.

Dr Al-Duri was a member of the staff of the Wellington Knee Surgery Unit at the Wellington Hospital since its inception and worked there officially as an Associate Specialist for 10 years (1990 - 2002). This unit is a recognized European training center for knee surgery and would take one research fellow every year for that purpose. Monthly meetings were held at the unit for the purpose of teaching as well as one to 2 international meetings annually on knee surgery. He tutored and later worked with Mr. Paul Aichroth, the Founder and first Director of the Wellington Knee Surgery Unit. At that time also he was giving a weekly lecture to the final year medical students of the Charing Cross Medical College.

He has special interest in knee ligament surgery and has published several articles about the knee surgery topics, including A Letter to the Editor of Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research in vol.240, July 1989 and The Reply by Joseph Torg; the Al Duri ZAD/FC Relation of the Fibular Head Sign to Other Signs of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Insufficiency for the Clinical Orthopedic; Post Trauma Stiff Knee Syndrome, Orthopedics International Edition, 1992 vol.1; Partial Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears, A Review, Orthopedics International Edition, 1992 vol.2; The Lateral Extra-Articular Reconstruction in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficient Knee, The American Journal of Knee Surgery in Fall, 1993; Partial Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears, Evaluation and Clinical Review, The Knee, 1995; and The Posterior Cruciate Ligament: A review, The American Journal of Knee Surgery, 1997.

Dr. Al-Duri Developed an interest in sporting injuries of the knee which developed into his authorship of Clinical Research on Anterior Knee Pain, Patellar tendonitis, Fat Pad involvement and Saphenous Nerve roles as in the subsequent publications: Patellar Tendonitis; Clinical & Literature Review, Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy, 1995; The Fat Pad - Clinical Observations, The American Journal of Knee Surgery, 1996; The Fat Pad and Anterior Knee Pain Syndromes, The Knee 1997; Patellar Tendonitis and Anterior Knee Pain, American Journal Knee Surgery, 1999.

He has participated in international meetings and given annual talks in such international societies as International Patellofemoral Study Group. Such a group is a special task group that deals with the anterior knee pain and patellofemoral joint headed by Prof. John Fulkerson, the world authority on the patellofemoral joint. This group continues to meet once a year or once every two years abroad and the last meeting he has attended was in April 2002 in Rome, Italy. He hopes to convey some of his ideas and experience to orthopedic colleagues and colleagues of other disciplines by the meetings and lectures that shall be given in the GDC.