Associate Professor of Gastroenterology

Research Interests:

• Novel endoscopic technologies for gastrointestinal disease
• Device innovation
• AI-enabled endoscopy
• Endoscopic approaches to cancer prevention and early detection

An affiliate member of the Malone Center, Venkata Akshintala is an associate professor of gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as program director for both the Medical Pancreatology and Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Programs. An internationally recognized researcher, he also holds a position as an adjunct associate professor at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in India.

Akshintala’s research is focused on the medical and endoscopic management of inflammatory disorders of the pancreas and pancreas cancer prevention. He is also interested in developing new devices and technologies, such as AI applications, for the care of patients with gastrointestinal disorders. Akshintala has conducted multinational randomized controlled trials and has won numerous awards at major national and international conferences for his research; he also has authored more than 200 original articles, editorials, book chapters and review articles. As an innovator, Akshintala has patented new therapies for use in gastrointestinal endoscopy and in the management of pancreatic disorders.

Akshintala received his medical degree from the Andhra Medical College in India in 2011. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2016, and his postdoctoral research fellowship in gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2019. Since then he has completed additional fellowships in advanced endoscopy and medical pancreatology, also at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a PhD with the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group in the Netherlands.