7 Quick Questions With Gastroenterologist Rohit Sharda, MD

October 5, 2026

Rohit Sharda, MD, is a UVA Health gastroenterologist in northern Virginia. He diagnoses and treats digestive system disorders, including GERD, abdominal pain, inflammatory bowel disease, and pancreas conditions.

Meet a UVA Health Gastroenterologist

Get to know more about Sharda and his clinical approach in these 7 quick questions.

1. What has most inspired and shaped your approach to patient care?

It's enormously rewarding to see people through the entire journey, from diagnosis through treatment, and see them in follow-up when they're doing well. That provides tremendous satisfaction, both personally and professionally, to see people do well after we've been able to intervene in their lives in a positive way.

2. What's your favorite part of your job?

Endoscopy. I love both talking to patients at bedside and doing procedures, but procedures provide an ability to diagnose and immediately treat patients, and that satisfaction is incredibly rewarding.

3. What’s your biggest fear as a patient?

Fear of the unknown. It can be extremely scary to walk into what's a relatively sterile facility, with providers and nurses and people you don't know in an environment that you're not familiar with when you're probably at your worst. On the flip side, we try to alleviate and address those concerns by making the hospital as comfortable as possible to provide expert care.