Emad Aljahdli - Former Member of the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Emad Aljahdli completed his last residency at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in June of 2014. He had studied Transplant Hepatology and Liver diseases with some of the best doctors in the field and went on to complete his final residency, in Advanced Endoscopy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in June 2015. He works now as a Gastroenterologist in the Boston area and contributes to research studies on how to detect gastroenterological disorders like colon cancer in patients. He learned much about the study of the body’s digestive process and much more during his time at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center.

The Lahey Hospital and Medical Center is known for keeping some of the best doctors around in specialized units designed to help patients on an individual basis, treating their specific illness with some of the best researchers and physicians in the world. Emad Aljahdli remembers the many lessons he learned from the doctors and other healthcare professionals there during his three residencies. The Lahey Hospital and Medical Center is run by the physicians as a nonprofit group practice. With over 500 top-notch doctors and over 5,000 nurses and excellently trained medical support staff members, the medical facility helps many patients in the area find solutions to their specific medical issues. Emad Aljahdli gained valuable experience there.

Emad Aljahdli lives in the Boston area and wants to continue to help the area’s people treat their digestive tract diseases and disorders for many more years. He hopes that his patient work and his research efforts will have a lasting impact.

Emad Aljahdli - What is Gastroenterology?

Emad Aljahdli moved to the United States from his home in Saudi Arabia in 2005 to finish his education and training as a medical doctor. He attended one of the top medical schools in Saudi Arabia, the King Abdul Aziz University Medical School, in Jeddah, but he wanted to pursue a specific kind of medicine and research new ways of treating patients that could have a huge impact on the global medical community someday. Dr. Aljahdli studied for two years to pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination and apply for a residency in the medical specialty of his choice: Gastroenterology, the study of the digestive system.

Emad Aljahdli had to learn how the esophagus, stomach, gall bladder, small intestine, large intestine, colon, pancreas, and liver processed nutrients and other materials from food independently. Emad Aljahdli then had to study common diseases such as colon cancer and polyps, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and others, as well as how to treat them. After completing his residency training in Gastroenterology at the Lahey Medical Center near Boston, he completed two other residencies to help study new treatments in the field. Gastroenterology is primarily concerned with how the body absorbs nutrients from our food and disposes of waste products. This medical specialty also focuses on how the liver works as a digestive organ.

Emad Aljahdli bolstered his intensive training in Gastroenterology with a residency in Liver diseases and Hepatology. In addition to training for nearly three years in Gastroenterology, Dr. Aljahdli completed a six-month Transplant Hepatology and Liver diseases residency and an Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship.

Emad Aljahdli - Finding Better Endoscopy Techniques

Emad Aljahdli is a doctor of gastroenterology based in the Boston area. He moved there from Saudi Arabia to participate in growing research into endoscopy and how it can be improved to find colon cancer in patients earlier in its development to introduce treatment quicker and isolate cancerous cells. Dr. Aljahdli was drawn to medical research in addition to his primary care duties because he wants to be an active member of the medical community that works to find new ways of treating deadly diseases like colon cancer and other problems with the gastrointestinal tract.

Emad Aljahdli

 Emad Aljahdli is a gastrointestinal and gastroenterology expert who has worked with many different research teams dedicated to developing improvements to endoscopic procedures so that doctors like him can find diseases like colon cancer and signs of cancer such as colon polyps in patients so they can introduce treatments sooner. Emad Aljahdli, as an expert in the gastrointestinal tract, participated in a quality improvement study in colonoscopy procedures so that he and other specialists like him can find colon polyps and other signs of cancer in patients in a more efficient manner. Studies like this can help doctors working with cancer patients, especially colon cancer patients find the signs of colon cancer and pancreatic cancer sooner and save lives.

Emad Aljahdli hopes to participate in the growing research community of doctors looking for better ways to use procedures like endoscopies to detect the warning signs of colon cancer and other serious gastrointestinal disorders and diseases.