Khurram Mazhar, M.D.

Khurram Mazhar, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. He has been on the medical staff at VA North Texas since 2014. 

He is originally from the Chicago area and earned a bachelor's degree in economics and chemistry at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.He attended medical school at Rush University.  He completed internal medicine residency training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, along with a fellowship in hepatology and liver transplant.  He then pursued a gastroenterology fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Mazhar serves as an attending physician on both the gastroenterology and hepatology consult services, as well as supervising GI fellows in the teaching of upper GI endoscopy and colonoscopy.  He is the clinic director for multiple gastroenterology and hepatology clinics at the North Texas VA Health Care System in Dallas, and also serves as an outpatient clinic attending in the inflammatory bowel disease clinic, general GI clinic, and resident/fellow liver teaching clinics. He is a member of the multidisciplinary Liver Tumor Board, where he works with other physicians in interventional radiology, surgical oncology, and medical oncology, in order to provide excellent clinical care to those veterans suffering from hepatocellular carcinoma. He has published articles on the diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and DAA hepatitis C therapy.