Dr. Asma Khapra is a Gastroenterologist with GastroHealth, the second-largest national private GI group, where she founded the Women in GI Network to amplify the voices of women physicians. For more than 18 years, she has combined her clinical expertise in inflammatory bowel disease and women’s digestive health with a deep commitment to ensuring that women’s unique health needs are recognized and prioritized.
As the cofounder and Chief Medical Officer of Pandora Health, a digital health startup dedicated to women’s digestive health, Dr. Khapra is helping shape innovative solutions that put women at the center of care. She has also consulted with several digital health startups, bringing her clinical perspective to the development of patient-centered tools and technologies. In addition, she has authored several GI publications and abstracts and spent 15 years as a sub-investigator in Gastroenterology clinical trials, contributing to advancing research and evidence-based care.
Dr. Khapra is a proud double alumna of Johns Hopkins University, where she completed both her undergraduate and medical degrees. She went on to complete her internship at Duke University, residency at Cornell–NewYork- Presbyterian, and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she trained with mentors in inflammatory bowel disease and women’s pelvic floor
disorders, and served as Chief Fellow. She also serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, mentoring the next generation of Gastroenterologists.
Her advocacy reaches beyond the clinic—through her leadership in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), frequent speaking engagements on women’s digestive health, representing patients and physicians on Capitol Hill, and being quoted in various media outlets discussing digestive disorders that disproportionately affect women. Since 2014, she has been honored annually on Washingtonian Magazine’s Best Doctors list.