Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Valentina Shakhnovich, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, 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 ASCPT Presidential Trainee Awards, as well early-career awards from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. She previously served as Associate Editor for ASCPT’s journal, Clinical and Translational Science, and continues to be an active member of ASCPT.