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Savita Srivastava: Welcome to the GSI Team

Savita Srivastava: Welcome to the GSI Team

We would like to take a moment and welcome our newest physician, Dr. Savita Srivastava. Dr. Savita Srivastava is originally from Buffalo, NY. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in Providence, RI, with a dual concentration in Biochemistry and English. As an undergraduate, her English degree focused on the art of medicine in literature. She went on to medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. As a medical student, she served as the National Chair of the American Medical Association’s Medical Student Section, where she advocated for health care reform and created a national service project to enroll uninsured children into the Children’s Health Insurance program.

Dr. Srivastava completed her internal medicine internship and residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She went on to serve as the Chief Medical Resident for Georgetown and INOVA Fairfax Hospitals. She presented her research as a medical resident in liver diseases at the American College of Gastroenterology, and won the Presidential Poster Award. During this time, she also served as an intern at the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and chaired the Resident and Fellows Section of the medical Society of DC.

Dr. Srivastava completed her Gastroenterology Fellowship at Yale University in New Haven, CT, where she also pursued research in autoimmune liver diseases under the auspices of National Institutes of Health training grant. As a fellow, she won the Kushlan Award for outstanding gastroenterology fellow at Yale.

After graduating fellowship, she was a professor at Duke University School of medicine, one of the top GI programs in the nation for 5 years. She subsequently worked as a gastroenterologist for the University of Virginia Physician’s Group where she started a clinical gastroenterology practice for UVA in the exurbs of DC. She was named “Top Doctor” by Northern Virginia Magazine in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Dr. Srivastava is a national leader in gastroenterology and currently serves as a member of the American Gastroenterological Association’s (AGA) Publication’s Committee. She was also among a handful of young physicians chosen by the AGA to participate in the AGA’s Future Leader’s Program, invested in developing the future national leaders for the organization.

Dr. Srivastava’s clinical interests include: women’s digestive health, colon cancer screening, irritable bowel syndrome, integrative gastroenterology, the microbiome and liver diseases.

Dr. Srivastava is married to her husband Sameer and has 2 young children. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, exploring culture, art and cuisine in Washington and Richmond, wine tasting in Virginia wine country and working out.