dr. Khaira Utia Yusrie, Sp.PD-KGEH, FINASIM

Dr. Khaira began clinical practice as an emergency department and ICU physician at Tangerang General Hospital (1997 to 1998), then served as head of Caile Community Health Center, Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi (1998 to 2001). During this period Dr. Khaira received the Bulukumba Regency Model Doctor award, first place (1999), the South Sulawesi Province Model Doctor award, third place (2000), and the South Sulawesi Province Outstanding Community Health Center award, second place (2000). Dr. Khaira then ran an independent medical practice (2001 to 2007).

Since 2008 Dr. Khaira has practiced as an internal medicine specialist at Muhammadiyah Taman Puring Hospital, South Jakarta, and has served as the hospital's director since 2019. Since 2013 Dr. Khaira has also headed the Internal Medicine Functional Medical Staff Unit (SMF) at Permata Pamulang Hospital, South Tangerang. Dr. Khaira now also practices at Heartology Cardiovascular Hospital.

Dr. Khaira Utia Yusrie, Sp.PD-KGEH, is an internal medicine specialist and consultant in gastroenterology and hepatology at Heartology Cardiovascular Hospital, Jakarta. Dr. Khaira completed all medical training at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia: medical school (1991 to 1997), internal medicine residency (2003 to 2007), and consultant subspecialty training in gastroenterology and hepatology (2018 to 2021). Dr. Khaira is also a Fellow of the Indonesian Society of Internal Medicine (FINASIM), a title awarded by the Indonesian Society of Internal Medicine (PAPDI).

Dr. Khaira's clinical interests are in gastroenterology and hepatology, including liver disease, hepatitis, fatty liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and other digestive disorders. Training in digestive endoscopy includes hands-on workshops such as one at the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center of Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital (2019), as well as workshops on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in 2019 and 2020. Dr. Khaira has also completed a hepatitis B course and a hepatitis C workshop from the Indonesian Association for the Study of the Liver (PPHI), and Good Clinical Practice training at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (2020).

Dr. Khaira's publications include studies on functional dyspepsia with a history of Helicobacter pylori infection (2010) and a prognostic model for one-year mortality in patients with upper gastrointestinal malignancy (2022), both at Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital. In 2019 Dr. Khaira presented a case of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) at Indonesian Digestive Disease Week and a talk on hepatitis B and C coinfection as a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma at the 12th Liver Update Symposium, and received second place for a case report in the poster session from the Indonesian Society of Gastroenterology (PGI). Dr. Khaira is a member of the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI), PAPDI, PGI, the Indonesian Society for Digestive Endoscopy (PEGI), PPHI, and the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL).