Peter Scudera, MD

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Board Certified in Gastroenterology

Dr. Peter Scudera grew up in New York and graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He enrolled at Cornell Medical College, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree and did post-doctoral training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. After practicing in upstate New York for two years, Dr. Scudera and his family moved to Northern Virginia in 1991. He has active staff privileges at INOVA Fairfax Hospital and INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital, serving as Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Fair Oaks. He is a member of the Nutrition Committee at Fair Oaks and is an original member of the INOVA Physician IT committee.

Dr. Scudera has been actively involved in the INOVA Center for Liver Diseases since the early 1990's. He regularly sees patients in the Center. Through this affiliation with the Center, Dr. Scudera's patients have access to research protocols for a variety of liver disorders, such as fatty liver disease and chronic viral hepatitis. In addition, Dr. Scudera has long-standing experience in performing procedures needed to treat patients with liver problems, such as ERCP for diseases of the bile ducts and upper endoscopy with esophageal banding for esophageal varices.

He has been named a "Top Doctor" by Washingtonian Magazine five times, and Northern Virginia Magazine selected him as a top doctor for the last four years.

Castle Connelly's Top Doctors has listed him for the last eight years as one of the nation's best gastroenterologists. He is a member of the American Gastroenterology Association and the American College of Gastroenterology.