Dr. Mahadevan specializes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly pregnancy and drug safety. She completed her medical degree at the State University of New York in Brooklyn, residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, Fellowship in gastroenterology at UCSF, and Advanced fellowship in IBD at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. For her exceptional work in pregnancy and drug safety and her mentoring of GI fellows and junior faculty 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 Crohn’s 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 2020 Crohn’s Colitis Congress®. Dr. Mahadevan is a member of the International Organization of IBD (IOIBD) for which she serves on the nominating committee.

Dr. Mahadevan has served on many prestigious journals, including special section editor for Gastroenterology. Dr. Mahadevan has published over 100 original articles, abstracts, editorials, and invited reviews in such peer-reviewed journals as Gastroenterology, Gut, Nature Reviews, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and Lancet Gastroenterology Hepatology as well as several book chapters. She authored the joint AGA, Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinical Care Pathway on the Management of IBD in Pregnancy.

Dr. Mahadevan is a global expert on the management of pregnancy and drug safety in patients with IBD. She is also interested in the role of diet and IBD and has an ongoing original study in this area. Her current projects include a national prospective registry of pregnancy outcomes and drug safety in women with IBD on immunosuppressive and biologic medications (PIANO) and a clinical trial on the impact of nutritional interventions in the management of IBD (SEAMUS). She has an interest in digital health and led the transition of the GI Division to telemedicine at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and has developed an IBD Chatbot with the Center for Digital Health and Innovation at UCSF. Dr. Mahadevan is proud to have mentored several Advanced IBD Fellows who now hold key roles in IBD Centers around the United States.