Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS

I am a physician who specializes in both Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics. I care for individuals primarily through the Prenatal Diagnosis Center and the Fetal Treatment Center who are pregnant or considering pregnancy, particularly those that are higher risk for a variety of reasons. These reasons may include fetal birth defects, fetal genetic diseases, maternal genetic or non-genetic diseases, and many others. I am also Program Director for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at UCSF, and serve as Medical Director for the Prenatal Diagnosis Center at UCSF Benioff Children's Physicians (UBCP). In my role as a physician scientist, I am a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator as well as an Investigator for the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, Co-Director of the Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR)/K12 Program at UCSF, and serve as the alternate PI for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network award at UCSF. My research program is focused on developing a precision-based approach to care for non-immune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) and other fetal anomalies by establishing multicenter NIHF data over many years, performing genomic sequencing and other testing to discover the breadth of underlying causes, refining clinical testing algorithms, and developing novel in utero treatment approaches.