Credentials & Education
Medical School
- Osmania Medical College,
Hyderabad, India
Residency
- Internal Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA
Board Certifications
Fellowship
- General Gastroenterology, University of Massachusetts
- Advanced Endoscopy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
- Advanced Endoscopy and Microsurgical, With Professor Haru Inoue, Tokyo, Japan
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
About
Ashish Sharma, M.D., is a fellowship-trained gastroenterologist who treats patients with digestive disorders that can have a drastic effect on quality of life. His area of expertise is in advance endoscopy and treatment of early cancers of the digestive track.
Dr. Sharma is skilled in performing advanced endoscopic procedures such as endoscopic ultrasound, a minimally invasive procedure to assess digestive and lung diseases; bile duct disorder treatment; and removal of early tumors of the digestive track through endoscopic submucosal dissection.
Before joining LHP, Dr. Sharma served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and more recently, established a center of excellence in advanced endoscopy at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Sacramento, California. He has also served as a clinical instructor at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of California, Irvine.
He is among a handful of American gastroenterologists trained in Japan in peroral endoscopic myotomy and endoscopic submucosal dissection. He was also a visiting fellow at the prestigious National Cancer Center in Tokyo.
Dr. Sharma's articles on gastroenterology topics have been published in several medical journals.
Ashish Sharma, M.D., is a fellowship-trained gastroenterologist who treats patients with digestive disorders that can have a drastic effect on quality of life. His area of expertise is in advance endoscopy and treatment of early cancers of the digestive track. Dr. Sharma is skilled in performing advanced endoscopic procedures such as endoscopic ultrasound, a minimally invasive procedure to assess digestive and lung diseases; bile duct disorder treatment; and removal of early tumors of the digestive track through endoscopic submucosal dissection. Before joining LHP, Dr. Sharma served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and more recently, established a center of excellence in advanced endoscopy at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Sacramento, California. He has also served as a clinical instructor at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of California, Irvine. He is among a handful of American gastroenterologists trained in Japan in peroral endoscopic myotomy and endoscopic submucosal dissection. He was also a visiting fellow at the prestigious National Cancer Center in Tokyo. Dr. Sharma's articles on gastroenterology topics have been published in several medical journals.