Internal Medicine Resident
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Aliya Moreira MD is a third-year Internal Medicine resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston. She completed her B.A. in Biology and Psychology at the University of Chicago, where she conducted an epidemiological study looking at risk factors and prevalence of toxoplasmosis in Panama. She attended medical school at the University of Michigan Medical School where she served as director of the Student Run Free Clinic and Wolverine Street Medicine initiatives. She earned an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Global Health & Populations with a concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Her practicum project with the Farhat Lab involved a mixed-methods study of delays to diagnosis in pediatric tuberculosis in India. At BIDMC she is in the Global Health Track and has spent two months performing clinical care in Molepolole, Botswana while leading a qualitative research study to understand barriers to tuberculosis diagnosis and the potential for point of care ultrasound to aid in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. She is passionate about improving global health systems for infectious disease prevention and diagnosis. She is currently applying for Infectious Diseases fellowship with the goal of providing clinical care and advocacy for patients with tuberculosis locally and globally.