Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Cornea Service

Medical School

The University of Michigan Medical School

Residency

Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Fellowship

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

Background

Aaleya Koreishi, MD, is a board certified ophthalmologist with specialty training in cornea and anterior segment diseases. She provides general and urgent eye care, and specializes in the management of common ocular diseases including cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes and macular degeneration. With her surgical expertise, she is highly skilled at performing cataract surgery and many other ocular surface and corneal procedures. Koreishi has a particular interest in treating patients with corneal diseases, dry eyes and those needing refractive correction and cataract surgery with lens implants. She is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.

Phone

919.684.5365

Fax

919.684.8509

Representative Publications

1. Koreishi A, Schechter BA, Karp CL. Ocular Infections Caused By Providencia Rettgeri. (Accepted in Ophthalmology).
2. Schechter BA, Karp CL, Koreishi AF, Feuer W. Long term follow-up of primary conjunctival and corneal intraepithelial neoplasia treated with topical interferon alfa-2b. (Submitting to Ophthalmology).
3. Koreishi A and Karp CL. Ocular Surface Neoplasia. Focal Points. San Francisco, CA: American Academy of Ophthalmology. (In press).
4. Koreishi A. Review of Essentials in Ophthalmology: Cornea and External Eye Disease. Reinhard T and Larkin F, editors. Doody’s Review Service (on-line); 2006.
5. Koreishi A and Karp CL. Interferon Alfa-2b in the medical management of ocular surface neoplasia. Vision Pan America, June 2005.
6. Koreishi A and Aldave AJ.  Wound construction and placement.  In: Arnold AC,editor. Basic Principles of Ophthalmic Surgery.  San Francisco, CA: AmericanAcademy of Ophthalmology.
7. Snyder L, Koreishi A, Starr C and Stark WJ. Phototherapeutic Keratectomy. In Foster CS, Azar D, Dohlman C, editors. Smolin and Thoft’s: The Cornea: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Practice. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
8. Koreishi A. Review of The Clinical Eye Atlas-CD-ROM. Gold DH and Lewis RA, editors. Doody Publishing; 2003.
9. Hofmeyer MR, Alexander NB, Nyquist LV, Medell JL, Koreishi A. Floor-rise strategy training in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2002; 50(10):1702-6.
10. Ambrus JL, Stadler I, Kulaylat M, Koreishi A, Akhtar S. Hemorrheologic effects of pyimido-pyrimidine derivatives. Journal of Medicine. 1996; 27(1-2):21-32.