Faisal Ghulam Qureshi, MD
- Pediatric Surgeon, Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (3)
Biography
Faisal Qureshi, M.D., is a pediatric general and thoracic pediatric surgeon at Children’s Health℠. He is a Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern and is the director of the Adolescent Bariatric Surgical Center. His other clinical interests are chest wall disorders, cancer and foregut surgery.
Dr. Qureshi completed a research fellowship in surgery with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his general surgical residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a minimally invasive surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and a pediatric surgical fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Dr. Qureshi is a reviewer for the Journal of Pediatric Surgery and has published about 60 peer-reviewed articles and nine book chapters. He lectures all over the world on pediatric surgery topics. Dr. Qureshi has been recognized in D Magazine's list of Best Doctors multiple years.
He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Surgeons, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Association for Academic Surgery, and the Society of University Surgeons.
Dr. Qureshi is married with three children and his interests include hiking and cycling.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Aga Khan University Medical College (1993)
- Graduate School
- George Washington University (2015)
- Residency
- New York Hospital Medical Center (2002), General Surgery
- Fellowship
- Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles (2008), Pediatric Surgery
- USC University Hospital (2006), Surgical Critical Care
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - UPMC (2005), Laparoscopic Surgery
- Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Abdominal tumors
- Achalasia
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Appendicitis
- Biliary tract problems
- Branchial cleft cysts
- Chest tumors
- Childhood obesity
- Choledochal cysts
- Cloacal anomaly
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Collapsed lung (pneumothorax)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital lung lesions
- Cystic hygroma (CH)
- Dermoid cyst
- Esophageal or bronchogenic cyst
- Gallbladder disease
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Hepatoblastoma (liver cancer)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Inguinal hernia (groin)
- Intestinal atresia
- Intestinal disorders
- Intestinal malrotation and volvulus
- Intussusception
- Kidney tumors
- Lipomas (skin lesions)
- Liver (hepatic) tumors
- Liver cysts
- Lung cysts
- Lymphangioma
- Meckel's diverticulum (MD)
- Neck cysts and enlarged lymph nodes
- Neck tumors
- Neuroblastoma
- Omphalocele
- Ovarian cysts and tumors
- Ovarian tumor
- Pancreatic cysts
- Pancreatic tumors
- Pancreatitis
- Parathyroid Mass
- Pediatric phimosis
- Pelvic masses
- Pelvic tumors
- Pilomatrixoma
- Pilonidal disease
- Pyloric stenosis
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Spleen cyst
- Thymus tumors
- Thyroglossal duct cyst
- Ulcerative colitis (UC)
- Umbilical hernia (belly button)
- Undescended testes (cryptorchidism - UDT)
- Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma)
Treatments
- Circumcision
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- Fetal and ex-utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure
- Laparoscopic pull-through procedure for anorectal malformations (ARM)
- Laparoscopic pull-through procedure for Hirschsprung disease
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Posterior sagittal anorectal vaginal urethroplasty (PSARVUP)
- Posterior sagittal anorectoplasty (PSARP)
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