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Giudice, MD,
PhD, MSc |
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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 joined UCSF in 2005 as the Robert B Jaffe, MD, Endowed Professor and Chair of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences and founded the Programme on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at UCSF in 2006.
Professor Giudice is a biochemist, gynaecologist, and reproductive endocrinologist who specialises in endometriosis, infertility, assisted reproduction, and ovulatory disorders.
Her research includes environmental impacts on reproductive health, endometrial biology, and placental-uterine interactions.
She received her BS from Columbia University, her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California Los Angeles, and her MD from Stanford University. As a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, Professor Giudice worked under Nobel Laureate Gunter Blobel. Professor Giudice completed residencies in Ob-Gyn at both Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis, followed by a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Stanford University. She was faculty at Stanford University for 19 years and was Founding Director of the Center for Research on Reproduction, Women’s Health and Genomic Medicine and the Women’s Health @ Stanford Program, as well as Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Division.
In 2002, Professor Giudice was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. She is former Chair of the FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work including, most recently, the 2008 President’s Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation and 2008 Women in Science Award from the American Medical Women’s Association. She is also the recipient of the American Infertility Association “Illumination Award” for her work on the environment and reproductive health, and the 2008 recipient of the ASRM Distinguished Researcher Award.
Professor Giudice
is the vice president of the World Endometriosis Society
(2008-2011), and was appointed vice president of the
World Endometriosis Research Foundation in October 2006.
08/2009
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