Uma Mahadevan, MD Uma Mahadevan, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Director of Clinical Research at the UCSF Center for Colitis and Crohn's Disease. Dr. Mahadevan specializes in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and pouchitis. She has a particular interest in pregnancy and fertility in IBD, as well as in clinical trials of experimental drug therapy for both conditions. Her current projects include pregnancy outcomes in women with IBD, clinical trials in biologic therapy for IBD, and the effects of IBD medications on male fertility and semen integrity. Dr. Mahadevan received her MD from the State University of New York in Brooklyn, New York. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and a fellowship in gastroenterology at UCSF. She also completed a fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Mahadevan is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association and the American College of Gastroenterology. She was the president of the Northern California Society of Clinical Gastroenterology in 2005 and is the chairman of the national patient education committee for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.