Valentina Shakhnovich, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine & Children's Mercy Hospital

Valentina Shakhnovich, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, is an NIH-funded physician-scientist and a practicing pediatric gastroenterologist and clinical pharmacologist at the Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Kansas City, MO). Her research program focuses on drug dose individualization for children with gastrointestinal disorders and includes clinical, translational, and biorepository work in obesity, fatty liver disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Shakhnovich's research efforts have been previously recognized with the ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award, as well multip early-career research awards from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. She recently served as Associate Editor for ASCPT’s journal, Clinical and Translational Science, and continues to be an active member of ASCPT.

Poster(s):

• PW-006 - INFLUENCE OF HEPATIC STEATOSIS, IN THE ABSENCE OF FIBROSIS, ON CYP3A4-MEDIATED CLEARANCE OF MIDAZOLAM IN CHILDREN WITH OBESITY.