Dr. Kiran Venkat Rao M.D.

Expert Publications

• Synthesis, anti-inflammatory evaluation and docking studies of some new fluorinated fused quinazolines.
• Isolated gastroduodenal Crohn's disease presenting with acute pancreatitis.
• Quinine Urethane in a Case of Hydrocoele.
• Late Eruption of Wisdom Teeth.

Media Releases

Get to know Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Dr. Kiran Rao, who serves the population of Sparta Township, New Jersey

Kiran Rao, MD, is a Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at Premier Health Associates, and is affiliated to the Newton Medical Center.

Dr. Kiran Rao is an experienced and acclaimed physician who has been in practice for more than 17 years. His medical career began in 2001 when he graduated from the JSS Medical College in Mysore, India. After moving to the United States, Dr. Rao completed his Internal Medicine residency and both of his fellowships in Transplant Hepatology and Gastroenterology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School in Newark, before entering private practice. He spent his final year of his fellowship serving as Chief Fellow.

Dr. Rao is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, but it is in this latter field that he has become a noted expert. Conditions treated by him include constipation, gastritis, esophagitis, celiac disease, cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, IBS,  crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Expert procedures carried out by Dr. Rao include colonoscopy and endoscopy, ERCP, and sigmoidoscopy.

Dr. Rao has had multiple medical papers published on subjects including splenic injury as a complication of routine colonoscopy, treatment of chronic hepatitis C in post-transplant patients, isolated duodenal Crohn’s disease and he remains committed to keeping up to date with the latest advances in his field.

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