GI leader to know: Dr. Valeria Cohran of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Valeria Cohran, MD, is the intestinal rehabilitation and transplantation director at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

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Dr. Cohran is an associate pediatric professor at the Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine. Her primary clinical interests include intestinal failure and transplantation.

She participated in the first trial of teduglutide in pediatric short bowel syndrome.

Dr. Cohran earned her medical degree from St. Louis-based Washington University and completed her pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

She is board-certified in pediatric gastroenterology and pediatric transplant hepatology.

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