Academic Divisions & Organized Research Unit
Director: Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PhD
Analyst: [email protected]
The Center for Reproductive Sciences is an organized research unit which exists to promote high quality, cutting edge research in the field of reproductive sciences; to facilitate the transfer of concepts developed in the laboratory to clinical applications; and to provide an integrated interdisciplinary training program for future leaders in the field of reproductive sciences.
Director: Lee-may Chen, MD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
The Division of Gynecologic Oncology focuses on cancers of the reproductive tract. Faculty members are experts in the prevention and management of precancerous abnormalities (such as dysplasia and hyperplasia) and cancer involving the vulva, vagina and cervix, uterus, fallopian tube and ovary. The Division provides clinical training for students, residents and clinical fellows in these areas through its multidisciplinary practices in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and surgical and inpatient care of women at UCSF's Moffitt-Long and Mount Zion Hospitals. Faculty members are engaged in research investigating the pathogenesis, detection and treatment of cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancer.
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Director: Juan Gonzalez Velez, MD, PhD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
The Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine provides a full line of direct clinical and consultation services to patients and physicians in all aspects of maternal care and fetal disorders. The perinatologists in this division offer expert consultations for all maternal complications, including maternal heart disease, neurologic disorders, immunologic disorders, gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders, as well as for fetal conditions such as multiple gestations, Rh and other alloimmunization, fetal growth disorders, and all types of fetal anomalies. Division faculty direct and manage the Birth Center (site for labor and delivery and the inpatient antepartum unit), which serves as a central place in the Department for teaching obstetrics to students, residents and clinical fellows. Faculty research involves biologic and clinical investigations addressing a broad range of topics across the disciplines of maternal-fetal medicine and genetics.
Director: Olga Ramm, MD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
Urogynecology/MIGS provides clinical care and expertise in urogynecology, fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic organ prolapse, ovarian pathology, intrauterine scarring and pelvic pain treatments with a focus on minimally invasive surgical techniques. Faculty lead specialized programs for the care of women with fibroids and endometriosis including development of the Comprehensive Fibroid Center. Inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures are performed in the operating rooms at the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion. In addition, we are a training site for the joint UCSF/Kaiser Oakland Urogynecology fellowship.
Director: Felicia Lester, MD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
The OGGS Division offers patients the full range of gynecologic and obstetric services. Our physicians and nurse practitioners are leaders in their fields and provide gynecologic care from the annual exam, problems with menstruation, and managing menopause symptoms, to complex gynecologic surgical needs. Our skilled and knowledgeable teams partner with our patients to maintain health, treat disease, and discuss sexual health & birth control options.
Director: Vickie Tatsis, MD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
The OB/GYN Hospital Medicine Division provides crucial coverage for our high-acuity Labor & Delivery Unit, as well as in complex surgical obstetric cases. We collaborate with other divisions to expand urgent gynecologic services in our Obstetric Emergency Department.
UCSF has the only academic hospitalist program north of Los Angeles. Our program offers the opportunity for teaching in real-time at the bedside or in the operating room. As experts in patient obstetrics, we provide a frontline safety net and provide care that improves outcomes around childbirth.
Director: Marcelle Cedars, MD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
The Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility provides expertise in infertility care and assisted reproduction, reproductive endocrinology and surgery, reproductive urology, andrology, genetics and psychology. Education activities in the Division emphasize a basic understanding of the menstrual cycle and the interaction between the hypothalamus, the pituitary and the ovary with the aim of providing trainees with a greater understanding and better management of many areas of reproductive endocrinology, including abnormal uterine bleeding, amenorrhea, contraception, hirsutism, infertility, menopause and osteoporosis. Division research encompasses a broad scope of basic, translational and clinical investigations.
Director: Rebecca Jackson, MD
Division Analyst: [email protected]
The mission of the Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is to improve the health of all women by eliminating financial, linguistic and cultural barriers to care and to provide high quality, evidenced-based, cost-effective health care to women in the context of training and research. Obstetrician-gynecologists and midwives at ZSFG provide the full range of clinical care to a remarkably diverse population of women visiting the hospital, and the New Generation Health Center (for teens), The Women's Options Center (for family planning and pregnancy termination), Mission Neighborhood Health Center (for prenatal and well-woman care) and Excelsior Clinic (for midwifery care). At ZSFG's Women's Health Center, Division faculty members provide specialized care in endocrinology, gynecologic cancer, high-risk pregnancy and continuity care for a broad spectrum of ethnically diverse women. Research by Division faculty explores multiple areas with major projects underway in family planning and reproductive tract infections.