Mallory Chavannes

Dr. Chavannes is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She completed her pediatric training at Western University in London, Ontario, and her pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Montreal. She pursued an advanced IBD fellowship at the University of British Columbia, where she also completed a Master of Health Science. She is currently an assistant professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has participated in optimizing and standardizing the care of patients with IBD at her institution and leads the IBD Intestinal Ultrasound program, which she introduced in the summer of 2020.

Dr. Chavannes’ research has focused in the past on the evaluation of therapies in inflammatory bowel diseases, as well as therapeutic drug monitoring. She is the recipient of a KL2 career development scholarship, during which she has expanded her interest in point-of-care monitoring of disease in pediatric patients with IBD, particularly using intestinal ultrasound as a biomarker of disease activity. Her team is involved in assessing the multifaceted impact of intestinal ultrasound in pediatric IBD care.