Allan Pratt, MD, MPH

Dr. Pratt is originally from Southern California and went to college at the University of California, Berkeley where he obtained a bachelor’s of science in Bioengineering.  He then went to medical school at Tufts University in Boston where he obtained an MD and Masters of Public Health degree. He did a pediatric residency in the Navy and then was a general pediatrician for 3 years before going back to GI training at Stanford University in California. Immediately after training he moved to Anchorage, Alaska where he made his home and had his second child. He was in GI practice in Alaska for 6 years before moving to Arizona to be nearer family. He is now a pediatric gastroenterologist at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where he has been for 13 years seeing all manner of general GI patients, but he has a particular interest in Nutrition, especially in athletics, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.  In his spare time, Dr. Pratt competes in triathlons (having now completed 4 Half-Ironmans), paints and enjoys cooking. His two children have graduated college and are pursuing graduate education in medicine and he is very happily married to a former University of Alaska History professor.  They are now celebrating their 27th year of marriage.  He retired (mostly) in October of this year and is now commuting to Alaska part-time