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The Road to Motherhood: Simple Rules for Navigating Pregnancy in Primary Care Video

The Road to Motherhood: Simple Rules for Navigating Pregnancy in Primary Care

The PCP is the first line of care for women planning or beginning a pregnancy, and their questions range from “Which vitamins do I need?” to “Should I get genetic testing?”
Screening for Cervical Cancer: New Evidence on Options and Outcomes Video

Screening for Cervical Cancer: New Evidence on Options and Outcomes

Gynecologic oncologist Megan Swanson, MD, MPH, deciphers recent changes to cervical cancer screening guidelines and uses the data to illuminate the relative value of test options – Pap smears, detection of high-risk HPV strains, or both tests together.
Guide to Early Pregnancy Problems: How to Explain Options and Navigate Discussions Video

Guide to Early Pregnancy Problems: How to Explain Options and Navigate Discussions

In early pregnancy, common issues range from bleeding to ectopic attachment to miscarriage, and patients need accurate information and gentle guidance. Here’s help with delivering news and sharing decisions, including how to answer questions on specific management choices and whether a problem now signifies future pregnancy difficulties.
Contraceptive Counseling: Simple Techniques for Complicated Patients Video

Contraceptive Counseling: Simple Techniques for Complicated Patients

With rates of both chronic illness and maternal mortality rising in the U.S., reproductive planning is an essential part of primary care. Offering a variety of approaches to these discussions, OB-GYN Tania Basu Serna, MD, MPH, breaks down contraceptive options and explains how to help individuals make the best choices for their lives.
COVID-19 During Pregnancy Associated with Preterm Birth, UCSF-Led Study Finds News

COVID-19 During Pregnancy Associated with Preterm Birth, UCSF-Led Study Finds

Pregnant people infected with COVID-19 face an increased risk of very preterm birth (VPTB), preterm birth (PTB) or early term birth, according to a large population-based study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
Menopause Management: New Strategies That Improve Women’s Lives Video

Menopause Management: New Strategies That Improve Women’s Lives

OB-GYN and reproductive health specialist Michael Policar, MD, MPH, offers an evidence-based guide to easing the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
Keeping Babies in the Picture: How to Address Fertility Concerns in Primary Care Video

Keeping Babies in the Picture: How to Address Fertility Concerns in Primary Care

Reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist Eleni Greenwood Jaswa, MD, MSc, presents a practical guide to helping patients concerned about failure to conceive.
Breast Cancer Imaging: How to Optimize Screening for High-Risk Patients Video

Breast Cancer Imaging: How to Optimize Screening for High-Risk Patients

All women should get regular mammograms, but what about those at elevated risk? Radiologist Kimberly Ray, MD, presents this quick update to ensure timely supplemental screening practices and appropriate imaging decisions.
A Better Bladder Guide: Managing Patients With Common Urinary Complaints Video

A Better Bladder Guide: Managing Patients With Common Urinary Complaints

This presentation from urologist Michelle Van Kuiken, MD, clearly defines overactive bladder and types of urinary incontinence, then walks through the pros and cons of treatment options – from physical therapy and meds to nerve stimulation and surgery.
The Rising Problem of Maternal Hypertension: Management Keys to a Range of Conditions Video

The Rising Problem of Maternal Hypertension: Management Keys to a Range of Conditions

Perinatologist Jennifer Duffy, MD, defines the categories of hypertension in pregnancy, providing criteria for diagnosis and monitoring – as well as the nuanced distinctions that inform management decision-making.
UCSF MD Link: Web-Based Communication Portal for Physicians Document

UCSF MD Link: Web-Based Communication Portal for Physicians

Our web portal allows referring physicians to securely access their patients’ entire electronic health record, make online referral requests and communicate with our physicians directly and securely.
Breast Changes: Managing Lumps, Pain, Discharge and Other Common Concerns Video

Breast Changes: Managing Lumps, Pain, Discharge and Other Common Concerns

Breast anatomy is complex, and everything from aging to implants can make exams tricky. Breast surgeon Shoko Emily Abe, MD, FACS, offers help with working up common issues that are often benign yet may require treatment or follow-up.
A Better Understanding of Breast Cancer Risk: How to Find the Best Options for Individual Patients Video

A Better Understanding of Breast Cancer Risk: How to Find the Best Options for Individual Patients

Doctors must weigh numerous factors as they seek to identify and manage patients at high breast cancer risk.
PCOS in Primary Care Video

PCOS in Primary Care

This common, multisystem disorder affects individuals differently, and doctors commonly miss the diagnosis. Dr. Heather Huddleston, director of the UCSF PCOS Clinic, presents an update to enable quicker detection as well as the development of care plans to support overall health and future fertility.
2019-20 Referral Services Guide Document

2019-20 Referral Services Guide

UCSF Health is recognized throughout the world for innovative treatments, advanced technology, collaboration among clinicians and scientists, and a highly compassionate team of patient care providers.
Breast Oncology Document

Breast Oncology

Expert care and transformative research working together to improve both survival and quality of life
Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 1 Video

Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 1

Jeannette Lager, MD, describes the complex etiology of chronic pelvic pain, including its visceral, musculoskeletal and neuropathic causes, and presents a systemic approach to the assessment of a chronic pelvic pain patient.
Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 2 Video

Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 2

Jeannette Lager, MD, describes a directed pelvic examination for chronic pelvic pain, including a general pelvic exam, Q-Tip test for vulvodynia, abdominal exam (including testing for Carnett’s Sign), an exam of the pelvic floor muscles and an assessment of myofascial trigger points.
Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 3 Video

Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 3

Jeannette Lager, MD, details endometriosis treatment options including expectant management, hormonal medical treatments, hormonal modulating medications, pain management, integrative regimens and surgery. She also explains the importance of a multidisciplinary program to address this multifactorial condition.
Mammography 101 Video

Mammography 101

Bonnie Joe, MD explains the differences between screening and diagnostic mammography, shows evidence for screening, answers common questions about radiation risk and false positives and discusses digital breast tomosynthesis, also known as 3D mammography.
Breast MRI and Advanced Breast Intervention Video

Breast MRI and Advanced Breast Intervention

Bonnie Joe, MD, PhD, discusses how breast MRI is performed, common indications for breast MRI and advanced methods for biopsy and pre-surgical localization of tumors.
Burden of Stroke in Women Video

Burden of Stroke in Women

Vineeta Singh, MD, discusses stroke in women and the relationship between gender and symptoms, risk-factors, prevalence and mortality. Dr. Singh also examines stress and depression as a possible risk factor for stroke in women.
Gender-Specific Differences in Stroke Clinical Presentation and Risk Factors Video

Gender-Specific Differences in Stroke Clinical Presentation and Risk Factors

Vineeta Singh, MD discusses sex-specific risk factors in women – including oral contraceptive use, carotid disease and obesity -- and examines whether these risk factors are adequately assessed.
Pregnancy Complications and Stroke Risk Video

Pregnancy Complications and Stroke Risk

Vineeta Singh, MD discusses the pregnancy- and post-pregnancy-associated risk factors for stroke and the management of these conditions.

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