Dr. Uma Mahadevan is a gastroenterologist and clinical scientist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly pregnancy and drug safety. She completed a medical degree at State University of New York in Brooklyn, residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, and fellowship in gastroenterology at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She did an advanced IBD fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Dr. Mahadevan currently serves as the Lynne and Marc Benioff Professor of Gastroenterology at UCSF, Director of the UCSF Colitis and Crohn’s Disease Center and Director of the Advanced IBD Fellowship. For her exceptional work in pregnancy and drug safety and mentoring she received the AGA 2022 Immunology, Microbiology & Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IMIBD) Section Research Mentor Award and the 2022 Sherman Prize.
Dr. Mahadevan is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, for whom she was Chair for the IMIBD Section, Chair of the AGA National IBD Parenthood initiative and Director (2023) and co-Director (2022, 2017) of the AGA Postgraduate Course. She is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology and served on the Educational Affairs Committee and as a member of the Advanced IBD Fellow Curriculum Committee. She was Chair of the Crohns Colitis Foundation Clinical Research Grants committee, a member of the National Scientific Advisory Committee and Taskforce on Women in IBD, and co-chair of the annual Crohn’s Colitis Congress (2020).

Dr. Mahadevan is proud to have mentored several Advanced IBD Fellows who know hold key roles in IBD Centers around the United States.