Firas Ahmed, MD

Dr. Firas Ahmed is an assistant professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an assistant attending radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He completed his radiology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, followed by a fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, focusing on abdominal imaging and intervention. Dr. Ahmed is interested in gastrointestinal and genitourinary imaging in general and in body oncology in specific.
Before his radiology training, Dr. Ahmed attended Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar where he graduated with a Master's degree in public health, majoring in epidemiology. He participated as a statistical analyst for the MESA-Lung study, a clinical study at Columbia University Irving Medical Center focusing on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema. Dr. Ahmed is active in conducting clinical research focusing on kidney cancer, radiomics, and pulmonary emphysema.