Investigators

Katie Brown, MD, MAS

Assistant Prof of Clin ObGyn
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Cynthia Belew, RN, MS, CNM

Clinical Professor
Family Health Care Nursing

Emily Beck, CNM, MS

Assistant Clinical Professor
Family Health Care Nursing

Amy Autry, MD

Clinical Professor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Dr. Meg Autry is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and the interim Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UCSF, Fresno. In her clinical practice, she does obstetrics and complex gynecology. Her areas of interest include family planning and benign gynecology. Dr. Autry is a member of the Academy of Medical Educators and serves on the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology's Complex Family Planning Division. She is the past president of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and of the SF Gyn Society.

Ifeyinwa Asiodu, RN, PhD, FAAN

Associate Professor
Family Health Care Nursing

Ifeyinwa Asiodu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. As a researcher, registered nurse, and lactation consultant, her research is focused on the intersection of racism, systemic and structural barriers, life course perspective, and human milk and lactation. Dr. Asiodu uses a critical ethnographic lens to inform her work.

Sarah Nathan, PhD, MS, FNP

Nurse Practitioner
Family Health Care Nursing

Sarah Nathan is an associate clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing, Family Health Care Nursing Department. Since joining the faculty, she has combined her passion for teaching with her dedication to community clinic health care.

Her faculty practice is at La Clinica, a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Easy Bay, serving a low income and immigrant population. Her clinical practice site is the young adult and adolescent clinic that provides primary and prenatal care for adolescents and young adults and pediatric care for their children.

Christine McDonald, ScD, MS

Assoc Professor In Residence
Pediatrics

Sara LaHue, MD

HS Asst Clinical Professor
Neurology

Dr. Sara C. LaHue is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCSF, and holds a Visiting Scientist appointment at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She is a neurohospitalist (neurologist focused on the care of hospitalized adults), researcher and educator. As a neurohospitalist, she serves on the Neurohospitalist Society Executive Board, the Neurohospitalist Editorial Board, and is an active member of several American Delirium Society committees. She is coauthor of the textbook "Emergency Neurology" (Oxford University Press 2021).

Deborah Karasek, PhD

Vendor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Galen Joseph, PhD

Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr. Galen Joseph, Ph.D. is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her research examines the socio-cultural and institutional dimensions of inequities in cancer care and translational genomics.

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