Emad Aljahdli - Formerly of the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Emad Aljahdli used to work at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center as a resident of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology. He learned much of what he practices now at the facility from a few of the best doctors in Gastroenterology in the world and admires how the facility is set up to provide compassionate, complete, and specialized care to all patients who come through their doors. He hopes to exemplify many of the characteristics and missions of the facility later in his career with a private practice of his one possibly one day.
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Emad Aljahdli began his career in the United States at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, which was founded by Dr. Frank Lahey in 1923 to be a bastion of specialized care for all patients on an individual basis. What Dr. Lahey wanted in his medical facility was a way for patients who needed it to access the care and treatment of leading specialists in a variety of medical fields. Emad Aljahdli hopes to embody his vision in his own care of patients as well one day. The Lahey Hospital and Medical Center is committed to compassionate care. It is also owned and operated by the physicians themselves as a nonprofit practice group. In addition to its specialized teams working together to treat one patient at a time, the facility is also home to advanced medical technology and medical education.
Emad Aljahdli works in the Boston area as a Gastroenterologist with a growing research background.
Emad Aljahdli - Rising Gastroenterologist
Emad Aljahdli is a highly trained and educated Gastroenterologist in the Boston area. After moving there in 2005 and completing his required Internal Medicine residency in 2007, he started working to develop his skills in more specialized areas such as liver diseases and Hepatology with more residency work. He is now working on medical trials for new Gastroenterology treatments that he hopes will have a lasting effect on the medical community as a whole. He got to this position by earning all of the training and education accolades involved on becoming a specialized Gastroenterologist.
Gastroenterologists like Emad Aljahdli are concerned with the body’s digestive tract. From the esophagus to the colon, Gastroenterologists have to understand how the system works to process food and absorb nutrients while disposing of waste at the same time. Emad Aljahdli also had to learn how to recognize common Gastroenterological disorders and how to treat them. Many times doctors like Aljahdli have little to go on during an initial patient visit other than the patient’s word. Part of the training of a Gastroenterologist involves discerning medical details from what the patient tells them. Getting and processing the right information from each patient is part of the medical training of any doctor, Gastroenterologists included.
Emad Aljahdli has helped many patients on an individual basis already through his residencies and training in the Boston area, where he learned how to work with doctors and patients to diagnose disease and make recommendations for treatment. He also contributes to the academic study of Gastroenterology.
Emad Aljahdli - Passing the United States Medical Licensing Examination
Emad Aljahdli, a gastroenterologist from Saudi Arabia, moved to the United States in 2005 to practice medicine and participate in medical research at several of the Boston area’s medical centers. He has since participated in numerous research projects, some aimed at improving the endoscopy process and make it better at identifying the early warning signs of colon cancer. He trained and completed fellowships with some of the best medical teachers and professionals in the world at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in the Boston area and continues to treat patients. None of this would have been possible for Dr. Aljahdli if he hadn’t passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
The USMLE is sponsored and developed by the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, Inc. and the National Board of Medical Examiners. When Emad Aljahdli moved to the United States in 2005, he spent two years applying to an internal medicine residency at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts and studying for the USMLE. Passing this examination is required to acquire a medical license in Massachusetts and every other state in the Union. Emad Aljahdli passed the test and got his license to practice medicine in Massachusetts.
Emad Aljahdli has demonstrated the skills he showed on his examination throughout his career in the United States. Dr. Aljahdli is excited to be able to contribute to the ongoing study of endoscopy to identify signs of serious gastrointestinal diseases.
Emad Aljahdli on the Importance of
Cancer Research
Emad Aljahdli is one of the many doctors and researchers around the world researching cancer and how to detect it in the body’s various systems early enough to treat it in time. He moved to Boston from Saudi Arabia to participate more fully in the research surrounding endoscopy as a way to detect colon cancer and other problems in the gastrointestinal tract. Dr. Aljahdli completed several residencies and fellowships in several Boston-area medical centers where he contributed to many research studies devoted to the detection and the proper diagnosing of cancer, especially colon cancer, over the years.
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Emad Aljahdli is a gastrointestinal system expert, so his research often dealt with endoscopy and how to detect gastrointestinal problems. He participated in quality improvement studies in colonoscopy and the accurate detection of colon polyps in individuals. This kind of research is very important because their findings will affect the efficacy of many tests and other procedures like endoscopies. Doctors learn much from their peers in this way, which in turn helps them find better solutions for the detection of cancer and other ailments in a timely manner so that doctors can help their patients before their diseases get worse. Emad Aljahdli is proud to be a part of ongoing research into cancer detection and diagnosis.
Emad Aljahdli recently participated in a new trial of a new endoscopic needle used for an endoscopic ultrasound technique designed to recognize pancreatic cancer. His dream is to improve the endoscopic field in terms of diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal issues.
