Vinay Chandrasekhara, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is a co-author of Clinical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 3rd Edition.

Dr. Chandrasekhara received his MD from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed a residency at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, after which he performed a fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an advanced fellowship in Endoscopy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology.

His recent awards include Gastroenterology and Hepatology Small Grant Research Award; ASGE Fellow; Radhika Srinivasan Humanism and Professionalism Award; and the Sidney Cohen Gastroenterology Faculty Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Chandrasekhara has been Membership Chair for the Delaware Valley Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Program Chair, Pennsylvania Society of Gastroenterology and Delaware Valley Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Member, Emerging Technologies Competency Guidelines and Assessment Tools Task Force, American Gastroenterological Association; Chair, Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable Endoscopic Innovation Committee, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Director, Advanced Endoscopy Conference; and Standards of Practice Committee, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.