Dr. Girish Sadashiva Rao MD

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Get to know Internist, Girish S. Rao, MD, who serves patients in Camp Springs, Clinton, and Greenbelt, MD

Dr. Girish S. Rao is an established internist who is currently seeing patients at Southern Maryland Medical Group LLC with offices in Camp Springs, Clinton, and Greenbelt, MD. He can also be found on staff at Right Weight Medical Center, Doctors Community Hospital, and MedStar Family Choice. With fourteen years of experience in the healthcare arena, Dr. Girish S. Rao displays a special interest in the management of hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol.

Dr. Girish S. Rao is a 2002-graduate of St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, where he received his medical degree. His postgraduate training includes his three-year internal medicine residency at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Rao served on the Graduate Medical Education committee and was Chief Resident at Cooper University Hospital. Board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Rao was listed in the Washingtonian Magazine’s Top Doctors in 2016.

Prior to completing his medical degree, Dr. Girish S. Rao obtained an undergraduate degree in public health studies at Johns Hopkins University. He then pursued his Master of health Sciences degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Outside his practice, he enjoys playing tennis, spending time with his family and friends, and listening to music.

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