Highly Specialized Physician Joins Area Digestive Health Group

Highly Specialized Physician Joins Area Digestive Health Group: Capital Digestive Care adds Advanced Interventional Endoscopist

Capital Digestive Care is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Faisal Bhinder, the group’s newest gastroenterologist. With experience in general gastroenterology and geriatric medicine, Dr. Bhinder is an advanced interventional therapeutic endoscopist with special expertise in the newer modalities such as Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS), Radio Frequency ablation (RFA), deep Small Bowel Enteroscopy, and Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR).

“Dr. Bhinder’s specialized skillset enhances the continuum of care for our patients,” said Dr. Mark Birns, Capital Digestive Care gastroenterologist and managing partner of the Birns, Gloger & Witten (BGW) division. “Advanced endoscopic procedures are needed for patients with complex digestive diseases that require specialized treatments that would normally be referred to a tertiary care center. Dr. Bhinder’s experience will allow many of these patients to stay within the same network – and keep their physician – throughout their treatment.”

Dr. Bhinder is also trained to perform advanced therapeutic procedures with Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for treatment of biliary and pancreatic disease and is proficient as well as authored in Wireless Capsule Enteroscopy (WCE).

A graduate of the King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, Dr. Bhinder completed his residency in internal medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, followed by fellowships in gastroenterology and geriatric medicine. Upon completion of his training, he established Calvert Gastroenterology and served as Chief of Gastroenterology and Director of Endoscopy at Calvert Memorial Hospital in southern Maryland. After five years in practice, he pursued additional advanced training in interventional endoscopy at the University of Florida Shands Hospital in Gainsville.

Dr. Bhinder is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is Board Certified in Gastroenterology and Geriatric Medicine. Fluent in Urdu, Punjabi and Arabic, Dr. Bhinder will see patients at Capital Digestive Care’s Birns, Gloger & Witten offices in Rockville and Urbana, Md. 

For more information on Birns, Gloger & Witten, MD locations and physicians, please visit www.capitaldigestivecare.com/BGW.


About Capital Digestive Care
Capital Digestive Care is a group of 59 physicians unified across the Washington Metropolitan Area in their desire to advance the delivery of care for patients suffering from all types of digestive health conditions. Capital Digestive Care offers the greatest collective experience in the area along with the most accessible care. The group’s physicians practice at 16 office locations and are affiliated with 15 hospitals and 8 outpatient endoscopy centers, where more than 30,000 colonoscopies are performed each year. Many of them are actively involved in research studies, programs and clinical trials through Chevy Chase Clinical Research, the largest research program of its kind in the region. More than 300 studies have been conducted at the facility in all areas of Gastroenterology, especially in IBD, and some areas of Internal Medicine. For more information, please visit www.capitaldigestivecare.com.