Tina Raine-Bennett, MD, MPH

Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Medical Director, New Generation Health Center

Email: rainet@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Tina Raine-Bennett has been a faculty member in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine since 1998. She received her medical training at the University of California, San Diego and post-graduate residency training and MPH at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her current responsibilities include: 1) serving as Medical Director of the New Generation Health Center, a family planning and STD clinic for adolescents and young women, 2) conducting research on improving contraceptive use among adolescents and women at high risk for unintended pregnancy, and 3) providing resident and medical student education and supervision in Obstetrics and Gynecology at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research is focused on improving contraceptive use as a part of a comprehensive approach to reducing disparities in unintended pregnancy rates, particularly among adolescents and minority women. In addition she is also involved in clinical trials designed to determine ways to improve access to and utilization of emerging contraceptive methods.

Areas of Interest:

• Adolescent contraceptive use
• Emergency contraception
• Influence of race and cultural factors on contraceptive use
• Preventing unintended pregnancies and STDs in adolescents
• Contraceptive clinical trials

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009