Dr. Alia Qureshi is an associate professor of general surgery and a leading expert in foregut disease and its surgical management. She received her medical degree and completed her surgical residency at the University of Toronto. She then completed a fellowship in MIS Foregut Oncology at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Prior to joining the OHSU Department of Surgery, Dr. Qureshi was an attending surgeon at Harvard's Beth Israel Lahey hospital.
Dr. Qureshi is also an active educator and researcher, involved with resident education as well as minimally invasive surgery research. Her strong science background in molecular biology has informed her study of the fundamental biology of foregut, Barrett's esophagus and gastric cancer.