Nitin K. Ahuja, MD, MS

Gastroenterology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Gastroenterology Perelman
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About me

  • Director, Program in Neurogastroenterology and Motility
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Gastroenterology)

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Michigan
  • Residency: University of Virginia Health System
  • Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

204 reviews

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Anonymous
June 2026
knows what he does and is very kind
Anonymous
June 2026
always very patient and concerned with my needs
Anonymous
June 2026
dr. ahuja is highly knowledgeable, very thorough, and has a very calm and comforting demeanor.
Anonymous
May 2026
his knowledge

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Ahuja is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Ahuja NK The therapeutic inventory: a lodestone for complex motility encounters , Gastro Hep Advances, 5(3): 2026


Ahuja NK Looking Behind the Veil , The New York Review of Books: 2025


Hewlett KK, PeBenito A, Hecht AL, Tiffany C, Tanes C, Glover RC, Friedman ES, Reynolds JC, Bittinger K, Wu GD, Ahuja NK, Zackular JP Dietary fiber modulates the window of susceptibility to Clostridioides difficile infection , Gastroenterology, 169(5): 2025,970-982


Khanna T, Itzoe M, Mukherjee J, Ahuja NK Concomitant use of prescription-based agents for chronic constipation: a single-center retrospective study , Gastro Hep Advances, 4(10): 2025,1-3


Brenner DM, Sayuk GS, Cash BD, Harris LA, Ahuja NK, Deutsch JK, Yang Y, Zhao S, Rosenbaum DP, Lembo AJ Tenapanor improves abdominal symptoms irrespective of changes in complete spontaneous bowel movement frequency in adults with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation , Digestive Diseases , 43(2): 2025,146-157


Bor S, Kalkan IH, Savarino E, Rao S, Tack J, Pasricha J, Cangemi D, Schol J, Karunaratne T, Ghisa M, Ahuja NK, Lacy B Prokinetics – safety and efficacy: The European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility/The American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society expert review , Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 36(5): 2024,e14774


Ahuja NK Hypermobility, trauma, and the roads to Rome , Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 69(3): 2024,653-654


Ahuja NK Gut Instincts , The New York Review of Books: 2023


Ahuja NK Chronic Illness TikTok Through the Eyes of a Doctor , Wired: 2023


Ahuja NK In Humanity's Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream , Wired: 2022