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    MediFind found 183 doctor with experience in Colitis near Bowie, MD. Of these, 154 are Experienced, 28 are Advanced and 1 are Distinguished.

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    183 providers found
      Experienced in Colitis
      Family Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Family Medicine

      Patient First Maryland Medical Group

      15459 Annapolis Rd, 
      Bowie, MD 
       (3.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Chioma Akwara is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Bowie, Maryland. Dr. Akwara is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, Asymptomatic Bacteriuria, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), and COVID-19.

      Biju K. Alex
      Distinguished in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Distinguished in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Gastro Health

      10710 Charter Drive, Suite 110, Suite 110, 
      Columbia, MD 
       (14.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Biju Alex is a Gastroenterologist in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Alex is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Colitis, Viral Gastroenteritis, Portal Hypertension, Gastrectomy, and Endoscopy.

      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Capital Digestive Care LLC

      4831 Telsa Dr F, 
      Bowie, MD 
       (2.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Brian Ciampa is a Gastroenterologist in Bowie, Maryland. Dr. Ciampa is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Ulcerative Colitis, Indigestion, Diarrhea, Trichohepatoenteric Syndrome, and Colonoscopy.

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      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Capital Digestive Care LLC

      7350 Van Dusen Road, Suite 410, Suite 410, 
      Laurel, MD 
       (8.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Grice Mcmullan is a Gastroenterologist in Laurel, Maryland. Dr. Mcmullan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Heartburn, Gas Bloat Syndrome, Ascites, Gastrectomy, and Colonoscopy.

      Darryn R. Potosky
      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Capital Digestive Care LLC

      Laurel, MD 
       (8.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Darryn Potosky is a Gastroenterologist in Laurel, Maryland. Dr. Potosky is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Reynolds Syndrome, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), Liver Transplant, and Thrombectomy.

      Lauren V. Halvorson
      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Capital Digestive Care LLC

      7350 Van Dusen Road, Suite 210, Suite 210, 
      Laurel, MD 
       (8.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Lauren Halvorson is a Gastroenterologist in Laurel, Maryland. Dr. Halvorson is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Gastric Dysmotility, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Endoscopy, and Colonoscopy.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Doctors First Professional Corporation

      14300 Gallant Fox Ln, Suite 110, 
      Bowie, MD 
       (2.6 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Urdu
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Rakesh Malik is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Bowie, Maryland. Dr. Malik is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are High Cholesterol, Hypertension, Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, and Familial Hypertension. Dr. Malik is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Patient First Maryland Medical Group PLLC

      15459 Annapolis Rd, 
      Bowie, MD 
       (3.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Spanish
      Accepting New Patients

      Robert Miles is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Bowie, Maryland. Dr. Miles is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, COVID-19, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), and Acute Cystitis. Dr. Miles is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Prime Medicine LLC

      12150 Annapolis Rd, Suite 308, 
      Glenn Dale, MD 
       (3.1 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Farsi, Italian, Spanish
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Farhad Jamali is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Glenn Dale, Maryland. Dr. Jamali is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, Hypertension, Familial Hypertension, and Subacute Combined Degeneration. Dr. Jamali is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Family Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Family Medicine
      1684 Village Grn, Lowr Level, 
      Crofton, MD 
       (4.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Allison Williams is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Crofton, Maryland. Dr. Williams is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Hypertensive Heart Disease, Defective Apolipoprotein B-100, Familial Hypercholesterolemia, and Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). Dr. Williams is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Privia Medical Group, LLC

      9470 Annapolis Rd, Suite 309, 
      Lanham, MD 
       (4.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Soonbok Woo is a Gastroenterologist in Lanham, Maryland. Dr. Woo is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome, Attenuated Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Cronkhite-Canada Disease, and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Privia Medical Group, LLC

      9470 Annapolis Rd, Suite 309, 
      Lanham, MD 
       (4.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Vietnamese
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Paula Bergamini is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Lanham, Maryland. Dr. Bergamini is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Sitosterolemia, Melorheostosis, Melorheostosis with Osteopoikilosis, and Osteopenia. Dr. Bergamini is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Emergency Medicine Associates P.A., P.C.

      8118 Good Luck Rd, 
      Lanham, MD 
       (5.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Amharic
      Accepting New Patients

      Hiruy Bishaw is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Lanham, Maryland. Dr. Bishaw is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Lung Metastases, Sepsis, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Gastrostomy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Bishaw is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Emergency Medicine Associates P.A., P.C.

      8118 Good Luck Rd, 
      Lanham, MD 
       (5.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Accepting New Patients

      Fozia Abdulwahabe is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Lanham, Maryland. Dr. Abdulwahabe is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Memory Loss, Lung Metastases, Ascites, Gastrostomy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Abdulwahabe is currently accepting new patients.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine
      Experienced in Colitis
      Internal Medicine

      Emergency Medicine Associates P.A., P.C.

      8118 Good Luck Rd, 
      Lanham, MD 
       (5.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Azeez Abiodun is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Lanham, Maryland. Dr. Abiodun is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Cellulitis, Sickle Cell Disease, Short QT Syndrome, Endoscopy, and Gastrostomy.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Experienced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Capital Digestive Care LLC

      Laurel, MD 
       (8.4 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Sanam Razeghi is a Gastroenterologist in Laurel, Maryland. Dr. Razeghi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. Her top areas of expertise are Trichohepatoenteric Syndrome, Diarrhea, Childhood Volvulus, Endoscopy, and Colonoscopy.

      Experienced in Colitis
      Pediatrics | Gastroenterology
      Experienced in Colitis
      Pediatrics | Gastroenterology
      111 Michigan Ave Nw, 
      Washington, DC 
       (13.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Accepting New Patients
      Offers Telehealth

      Christopher Hayes is a Pediatrics specialist and a Gastroenterologist in Washington, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Hayes is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Fecal Impaction, Delayed Growth, Encopresis, and Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS). Dr. Hayes is currently accepting new patients.

      Rudrajit M. Rai
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Gastro Center Of Maryland

      Columbia, MD 
       (14.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Dr. Rai was awarded the “TOP DOC” in Gastroenterology award by Baltimore Magazine for 2016. Dr. Rai is a Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist, with over 22 years of experience in this field. He is the Medical Director of Gastro Center of Maryland & Cascades Endoscopy Center and has served on the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for many years, starting in 1997. He has been in many leadership positions in the Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, including as the Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplantation and Director, Clinical Effectiveness. He completed his Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 1996 and completed an additional year of Advanced Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Transplant Hepatology and Biliary Disorders. Dr. Rai is considered a national thought leader and expert in the field of Gastroenterology and Liver disease and presents regularly at national and regional meetings. He has received many awards including Excellence in Clinical Research Award from the American College of Gastroenterology, Passano Clinician Scientist Award from Johns Hopkins University, Industry Research Scholar Award & Astra-Merck Award from the American Digestive Health Foundation, among others. He has published dozens of scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored many chapters for medical textbooks. He has performed over 50,000 procedures in this field and pioneered new and innovative medical techniques. Dr. Rai is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Crohn's Disease, Gastric Dysmotility, Colitis, Colonoscopy, and Gastrectomy.

      Marvin E. Lawrence
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Capital Digestive Care LLC

      5500 Knoll North Drive, Suite 460, Suite 460, 
      Columbia, MD 
       (14.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Marvin Lawrence is a Gastroenterologist in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Lawrence is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Swallowing Difficulty, Painful Swallowing, Berdon Syndrome, Diverticular Disease, and Endoscopy.

      Florin Selaru
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology
      Advanced in Colitis
      Gastroenterology

      Johns Hopkins Endoscopy & Surgery Center - Columbia

      Columbia, MD 
       (14.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Romanian
      Offers Telehealth

      Gastroenterologist Florin Selaru has faculty appointments to the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center; and the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute of NanoBioTechnology at The Johns Hopkins University. He is a clinical expert in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and serves as the director of the Harvey M. and Lyn P. Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Selaru earned his medical degree at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania. He completed his internal medicine residency at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and completed his fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Selaru’s research focuses on the intersection of clinical medicine, engineering and biology. His research expertise is in the utilization of bioengineering tools to answer clinically relevant questions and to translate findings for use in the clinical setting. He established and leads the Selaru lab, a National Institutes of Health-funded laboratory at Johns Hopkins that focuses on inflammation, fibrosis and cancer. The Selaru lab specializes in drug and device development for inflammatory and malignant conditions, as well as tissue regeneration solutions. Some specific projects include drug development for fibrosis in the gastrointestinal tract, microrobot development for oral drug delivery, tissue engineering for fistulas and other tissue defects in IBD, and novel drug targeting approaches for inflammation and cancer. Dr. Selaru’s overarching goal is to deliver medical products and technologies to patients with IBD and cancer. Dr. Selaru is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Colitis. His top areas of expertise are Viral Gastroenteritis, Cholangiocarcinoma (Bile Duct Cancer), Crohn's Disease, Gastrointestinal Fistula, and Endoscopy.

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      Last Updated: 02/22/2026

      What is the definition of Colitis?

      Colitis is swelling (inflammation) of the large intestine (colon).

      When should I see a Colitis doctor near Bowie, MD?

      There are various reasons why you may want to see a specialist, such as: 

      • Your primary care provider recommends it. 
      • Your condition requires expert knowledge and specialized care. 
      • Your symptoms persist or worsen despite treatment. 
      • You need specialized testing or procedures. 
      • You want a second opinion.  

      What should I consider when choosing a Colitis doctor near Bowie, MD?

      It’s important to see a provider with expertise in your specific condition. Each provider profile in MediFind’s doctor database includes information on which conditions they treat, years of experience, research contributions, languages spoken, insurance plans accepted, and more.  

      How does MediFind rank Colitis doctors near Bowie, MD?

      MediFind’s rankings are based on a variety of data sources, such as the number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials and industry conferences, as well as the number of patients that provider sees for a given condition. Note that MediFind’s provider database is not based on user reviews, and providers do not pay to be included in the database. 

      What types of insurance are accepted by Colitis doctors near Bowie, MD?

      Most profiles in MediFind’s doctor database include a list of insurance plans accepted by that provider. However, it’s a good idea to contact the provider’s office to make sure they still accept your insurance, then doublecheck by contacting your insurance plan to confirm they’re in network. 

      How can I book an appointment online with a Colitis doctor near Bowie, MD?

      MediFind offers direct scheduling for certain providers using the “Request Appointment” button on that provider’s profile. If the schedule option is not available for a provider, tap the red “Show Phone Number” button on their profile to get their contact information. If you prefer to find providers who offer online scheduling, select “Schedules online” under the “Availability” category of the filter feature on the left side of the Colitis doctor search results page. 

      Why is it important to get a second opinion from a different Colitis doctor?

      Second opinions are an opportunity to confirm a diagnosis and its root cause, learn about alternative treatment options, or simply gain peace of mind. Many people, especially those with serious diagnoses, get second opinions so they can understand all their options and make informed decisions, so don’t hesitate to get one if you have any doubts or need more information or clarification regarding your care. Note that some insurance plans require second opinions, while others don’t cover second opinions, so be sure to confirm with your insurance provider first.   

      How can I prepare for my appointment with a Colitis doctor near Bowie, MD?

      Prepare for your appointment by gathering the following items: 

      • Copies of medical records (dating back at least one year) 
      • Your medical history, including illnesses, medical conditions, surgeries, and other doctors you see 
      • Family history of disease 
      • List of current prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal remedies or supplements including names and doses 
      • Allergies to medications, food, latex, insects, etc.  
      • List of questions and concerns 
      • Your insurance card 

      You might also contact the provider’s office to see if they offer transportation or childcare services or if you’re allowed to bring a loved one for support or to take notes during your visit. 

      What questions should I ask my Colitis doctor?

      Here are some sample questions: 

      • Can you explain in simple terms what this condition is and how it’s treated? 
      • What symptoms or side effects should I watch for? 
      • What tests will be involved, and when can I expect results? 
      • Are there other specialists I need to see? 
      • What’s the best way to reach you if I have follow-up questions? 

      How can I learn about the latest clinical trials and research advances my Colitis doctor may know about?

      MediFind’s Clinical Trials tool asks you a series of questions to help you narrow down your search by health condition, age, gender, location, how far you’re willing to travel, and more. Each question you answer filters down the number of trials until you find the ones that are most relevant to you. 

      MediFind’s Latest Advances tool features summaries of recent articles published in medical journals. We use cutting-edge technology to scour medical publication databases for the latest research advancements on any given condition, then we simplify this information in a way that’s useful and easy to understand. 

      Can I filter my search to show male or female Colitis doctors near Bowie, MD?

      Look for the filter feature on the left side of the Colitis doctor search results page. Select “Female” or “Male” under the “Gender” category to search for female or male providers exclusively. If the “Any” option is selected, it will pull results for both male and female providers. 

      Can I filter my search to find a Colitis doctor that offers video calls?

      Look for the filter feature on the left-side of the Colitis doctor search results page. Select “Offers telehealth visits” under the Availability category to search for providers who offer virtual appointments (video calls). 

      Reviewed on: 11/11/24  

      By: MediFind Medical Staff 

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