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Linda Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
 

Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

The Robert B. Jaffe, MD, Endowed Chair in the Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco


Professor Giudice is a biochemist and gynaecologist/reproductive endocrinologist whose research has focused for nearly two decades on endometrial biology and placental-uterine interactions and who has clinical interests in endometriosis, implantation and ovulatory disorders, infertility, and assisted reproduction.

Dr. Giudice received her BS from Columbia University and her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, working under Nobel Laureate Gunter Blobel. She also did post-doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. She subsequently received her MD from Stanford University and did her residency in OB/GYN at Stanford and Washington University in St. Louis and her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) at Stanford.

She was on the Stanford University faculty for 19 years and was the Director of the REI Division, the Center for Research on Women’s Health and Reproduction, and the Women’s Health @ Stanford Program. Professor Giudice has trained more than 90 undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows.

Since 1990, her laboratory has been continuously funded by the NIH for research on human endometrium, and she is a co-editor of the textbook, The Endometrium.

At the national level, Professor Giudice has been a member of two NIH study sections and the March of Dimes study section C, and chaired the NIH Population Research Committee and the Steering Committee of the NIH Specialised Cooperative Centers Program for Reproductive Research. She currently chairs the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network and is the Chair of the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee to the FDA.

She is past President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and sits on the Executive Board of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program and on the Frontiers in Reproduction Board of Scientific Counselors. She was Chair of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Reproductive Tract Biology and was on the Council of the GRC. She was recently elected President of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation and sits on its Executive Council. She is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Women’s Health Research and the Board of Directors of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She also sits on the editorial boards and is associate editor of numerous professional journals. In 2002 Professor Giudice was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Giudice is a sought-after lecturer and consultant for issues related to research, mentoring, education, and policy in women’s health and reproduction. She joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, as the Robert B. Jaffe Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences in October 2005.

Professor Giudice was appointed vice president of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation in October 2006.

 

 


 

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