Indira Bhavsar-Burke, M.D.

Indira Bhavsar-Burke, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and is a member of its Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. She also serves as the Associate Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship at UT Southwestern. She specializes in general and transplant hepatology.

Dr. Bhavsar-Burke earned her medical degree at Marshall University in West Virginia. She completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Virginia, a gastroenterology fellowship at Indiana University, and a transplant hepatology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. She also holds a masters in health professions education from the University of Michigan.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in gastroenterology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023.

She has been invited to deliver national and regional lectures, contributed to the book Coaching in Medical Education, and published numerous academic articles.

Personal Note

Outside of work, Dr. Bhavsar-Burke enjoys executive coaching and medical education.

Medical School

Marshall University/Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine (2016)

Residency

University of Virginia Health System (2019), Internal Medicine

Other Post Graduate Training

University of Michigan (2021)

Fellowship

Indiana University School of Medicine (2022), Gastroenterology/hepatology

Fellowship

Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2023), Transplant Hepatology

Featured Publications

How to Become a Leader as a Fellow.

Bhavsar-Burke I, Dilly CK, Gastroenterology 2023 Aug 165 2 329-332

Cutting deep: Understanding the risks associated with postoperative infections in patients with cirrhosis.

Bhavsar-Burke I, Lindenmeyer CC, Liver Transpl 2023 May

Reimagining Gastroenterology Fellowship Training: The Third Year of the Future.

Bhavsar-Burke I, Shah BJ, Carethers JM, Whitson MJ, Kaul V, David Y, Dilly CK, Gastroenterology 2023 May 164 6 872-875.e2

Use of a Cirrhosis Admission Order Set Improves Adherence to Quality Metrics and May Decrease Hospital Length of Stay.

Bhavsar-Burke I, Guardiola JJ, Hamade N, Gerke S, Burke SM, Merrill K, Mulvey KD, Orman ES, Fayad N, Am J Gastroenterol 2023 Jan 118 1 114-120

How to Promote Professional Identity Development and Support Fellows-In-Training Through Teaching, Coaching, Mentorship, and Sponsorship.

Bhavsar-Burke I, Dilly CK, Oxentenko AS, Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022 Oct 20 10 2166-2169

Virtual Gastroenterology Fellowship Recruitment During COVID-19 and Its Implications for the Future.

Hamade N, Bhavsar-Burke I, Jansson-Knodell C, Wani S, Patel SG, Ehrlich AC, Paine E, Hosseini-Carroll P, Menard-Katcher P, Fayad N, Dig Dis Sci 2022 Jun 67 6 2019-2028

Is Blood Transfusion a Means of False Positive Phosphatidylethanol Testing?

Bhavsar-Burke I, Guardiola JJ, Holden JH, Liver Transpl 2022 Jan 28 1 138-139

Optical diagnosis of colorectal polyps using novel blue light imaging classification among trainee endoscopists.

Koehn C, Rex DK, Allen J, Bhatti U, Bhavsar-Burke I, Thoguluva Chandrasekar V, Challa A, Duvvuri A, Dakhoul L, Ha J, Hamade N, Hicks SB, Jansson-Knodell C, Krajicek E, Das Kundumadam S, Nutalapati V, Phatharacharukul PP, Razmdjou S, Saito A, Sarkis F, Sutton R, Wehbeh A, Sharma P, Desai M, Dig Endosc 2022 Jan 34 1 191-197

Visibility of Women at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meetings Increasing Over Time.

Jansson-Knodell CL, Bhavsar-Burke I, Gayam S, Kothari S, Oxentenko AS, Am J Gastroenterol 2021 Oct 116 10 2149-2151

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Clinical Learning Environment: Addressing Identified Gaps and Seizing Opportunities.

Triemstra JD, Haas MRC, Bhavsar-Burke I, Gottlieb-Smith R, Wolff M, Shelgikar AV, Samala RV, Ruff AL, Kuo K, Tam M, Gupta A, Stojan J, Gruppen L, Ellinas H, Acad Med 2021 Sep 96 9 1276-1281