About San Francisco Gynecological Society
Established 1929
The San Francisco Gynecological Society is the oldest and largest professional OB/GYN Society in Northern California. Its members comprise over 150 Board-Certified Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The Society hold up to seven educational meetings a year providing education and discourse on various topics of interest. The objective of the Society is the promotion of knowlege relation to Obstetrics and Gynecology. The Society is a 501(3)(c) non-profit corporation.
CELEBRATING OUR 95th YEAR
Officers and Council Members 2024-2025
Emily Hu, M.D. -----------------------------------------President
Philip Chenette, M.D.-------------------------Past-President Jennifer Agard, M.D.----------------------------------Secretary
Wendy Zeng, M.D., PhD.-----------------------------Treasurer
Laura Norrell, M.D.-----------------------------Program Chair
ex officio
Risa Kagan, M.D.-----------------------------------President '22
Heidi Wittenberg, M.D.-----------------------------President '21
Yasser El-Sayed, M.D.-----------------------------President '13
Gavin Jacobson, M.D.------------------------------President '11
Mary Norton, M.D.-----------------------------------President '10
Meg Autry, M.D. -------------------------------------President '09
Michael Caplan, M.D.------------------Emeritus President '15
Fung Lam, M.D.-------------------------Emeritus President '08
Historian/Web
First Fall Meeting
Tuesday- November 19th, 2024
Dr. Richard Shaw at the Mark Hopkins Hotel
Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University
"PTSD in the NICU"
Dr. Richard J. Shaw is a psychiatrist in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of London Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 30 years, specializing in child & adolescent psychiatry. https://profiles.stanford.edu/richard-shaw
By Invitation
Mark Hopkins Hotel
6pm- cocktails
7pm-lecture
Followed by Dinner
2024-2025 Season
- Our developing season:
- Nov 19, 2024 DINNER MEETING at the MARK HOPKINS HOTEL : Richard Shaw MD Professor of Psychiatry ,Stanford University “ PTSD in the NICU “
- JAN 21, 2025 ZOOM Robert Superko MD Cardiologist , Monterey CA.
“ Understanding CV risks in OB/GYN patients”
- FEB 11, 2025 ZOOM -OBSTETRICS TOPIC
- March 11, 2025 DINNER MEETING at a new SF Venue Carolyn Sufrin MD PhD OBGYN and Medical Anthropologist, Johns Hopkins
" Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Women "
- April 8, 2025 DINNER MEETING at a new SF venue. GYNECOLOGY TOPIC
- May 13, 2025 DINNER MEETING at the MARK HOPKINS HOTEL Special Speaker in collaboration with UCSF and RESIDENT RESEARCH DAY
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- 2024 2025 dues are $595. / $575 for those signing up before NOV 19 2024
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Past Meetings
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Past meetings
2023-2024 SEASON
Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Brett Einerson, M.D., "Cesarean Scar Pregnancy" and Resident Research Day. Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) at the University of Utah.
Tuesday, March 19,2024, Marci Bowers, M.D.,“Gender Affirming Surgery and Clitoral Restoration”. Dr. Bower's foundation, marcifoundation.org, provides low cost surgery to FGM survivors in Africa and teaching of African surgeons. Dr. Bowers is the current president of WPATH World Professional Association for Transgender Health Presiden
Tuesday- February 13, 2024.Philip Chenette, M.D. ,SFGS presidential lecture
" Why we make babies - patients and their choices"
SFGS presidential lecture
November 7, 2023. Elliott Main, M.D.,Clinical Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Stanford University, Medical Director- California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) "Lessons Learned Leading Maternal Quality Improvement Efforts at Hospital, System, State, and National Levels"
October 10, 2023 Ijeoma Okwandu MD MPH and Kimeshia Thomas MD, co-hosts of The BirthSquad. “ WHO’S IN YOUR SQUAD? The Impact of Medical Influencers”
Tuesday- January 16, 2024,Virtual. David C Rhew MD -Global Chief Medical Officer
and VP for Healthcare at Microsoft and Marina Sirota ,PhD. Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF
" ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF YOU"
2022-2023 SEASON
November 1, 2022 (cancelled due to Omicron Surge)- Jen Gunter, M.D., Gynecologist and Pain Specialist, N.Y. Times columnist, Author of “The Vagina Bible” and “The Menopause Manifesto”. “Controversies in Gynecology- Debunking the Myths in Women’s Health”
January 10, 2023 (virtual)- Amanda Yeaton-Massey, M.D. "Perinatal Mental Health And Birth Trauma - Guiding Principles"
February 7 , 2023- Risa Kagan, MD “Menopausal Hormonal Therapy Update : The 2022 NAMS Hormone Therapy Guidelines"
March 14, 2023- Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH. “Communication and Decision-Making in the Management of Pre-viable Deliveries”
April 11, 2023- (Cancelled) Mitzi Hawkins, M.D. “Transgender Medical Care : Contraception and Menstruation Management for Transgenter and Gender Non-Binary Persons”
May 16, 2023- Panel; Meg Autry, M.D. , Dan Grossman, M.D. and Maryl Sackheim, M.D.
“What's our Role in the Post Roe World?”- and Resident Research Awards.
2021-2022
March 15, 2022- Yair Blumenfeld, M.D. Associate Professor-Division of MFM and OB, Stanford. Director Fetal Therapy- Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. “Fetal Surveillance in Twin Gestations”
April 19, 2022- David Chelmow, M.D., President – American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. “ASSCP Guidelines Update”
May 17, 2022- Grace Chen, M.D. MIS Female Pelvic Health and Reconstructive Surgery. “Shades of Gray: The Legacy of Sims-Evaluation of the role of Healthcare Systems on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Globally”- and the Resident’s Research Awards.
2020-2021 Season- Virtual due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
May 11, 2021- Carole Joffe, PhD.- “Abortion and Mainstream Medicine; The struggle for Acceptance.”
January 12, 2021- Udodiri Okwandu- Harvard University. “The History of Scientific and Medical Racism in Obstetrics and Gynecology.”
November 16,2021- Ghazaleh Moayedi, D.O., MPH. Complex Family Planning Specialist- Dallas, Texas. Interviewed by Ashley Jeanlus, M.D. UCSF Family Planning Fellow. “Texas Abortion Provider discusses Extreme Challenges in Access.”
October 13, 2020- Santosh Pandipati, M.D. “Climate Change and Effects on Global Women’s Health”
2019-2020 Season -
October 19, 2019- Eric Sokol,M.D., Stanford: -“Pelvic Mesh Mess”
November 12, 2019- Leah Millheiser, M.D. Stanford: “Sexual dysfunction”
January 7, 2020- John Chan,M.D. Sutter Health: -“Gyn Oncology: -Immunotherapy and Updates”
February 11, 2020- Kent Bottles, M.D.: -“Disruptive Changes in Medicine / Emerging technologies affecting the future of healthcare”
The following three programs; 3/10/20, 4/21/20 and 5/12/20 as well as the 5/12/20 Resident Research Presentations have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. 3/10/2020 Dr. Robin Lamar, UCSF : -Outpatient Induction- 4/21/2020 Dr. Lisa Harris, University of Michigan: Family Planning / Ethics / Law. 5/12/2020 Dr. -Lorraine Dugoff, University of Pennsylvania: -MFM / Genetics
2018-2019 Season
October 18, 2019- Mary Norton, UCSF: “Expanded Carrier Screening”
November 13, 2018- Dr. Dana Gossette, UCSF: “LEAN: Work Smarter, Not Harder”
January 15, 2019- Dr. Michael Katz, Sutter/California Pacific: Cervical Length /Cerclage: “The Truth /Some of the Whole Truth”
February 12, 2019- Holly Gibbs, Dignity Health: “Human Sex Trafficking”
March 12, 2019-Dr. George Sawaya, UCSF: “New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines”
April 16, 2019- Dr. Nawal Nour, Brigham and Womens: “Female Genital Cutting”
May 14, 2019- Dr. Erica Marsh, U of Michigan: “Comprehensive Treatment of Fibroids”
2017-2018
October 10, 2017- Stephanie Toti, JD, --Senior Counsel /Project Director, The Lawyering Project, Lead Counsel- “Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt: -Reproductive Rights: Emerging Issues in the Law”
November14,2018- ----Soraya Azari, MD, -Assistant Professor, ZSFG/UCSF Dept of Medicine: “The Opioid Epidemic”
January 16, 2018- Heidi Wittenberg, MD, Director-Urogynecology Center of San Francisco: “Transcendent: Below the Belt. Transgender Surgery”
February 13, 2018- Kimberly Lee, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara Medical Center and Sara Mandel, MD, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco : “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)”
March13, 2018- Michael Policar, MD MPH, Professor, ZSFG/UCSF Dept of Medicine: “Women's Health Policy in 2017-18: -What's Changed, What Hasn't”
April 17, 2018- Bill Grobman, M.D., MBA, Professor, Northwestern University School of Medicine, -MFM /Preventative Medicine: “ARRIVE- Elective Induction”
May 8,2018- Neel Shah, MD MPP, Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital, Harvard Medical School: “Value Based Care”
October 11, 2016- Denise Jamieson, M.D. Chief, Women's Health and Fertility Branch, Division of Reproduction Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (CDC), Adjunct Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emory University. – “Zika Virus Update”
November 1, 2016 - Karen Smith McCune, M.D., PhD. John Kerner Endowed Professor in Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco. “Update on HPV Vaccination: Products, Targets and Impact”
January 10, 2017- Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman , M.D., BSc, MSc,. Associate Professor of Obstetrics /Gynecology, -Columbia University Medical Center.- “Antenatal Corticosteroids: Past, -Present, and Future”.(also- San Francisco Caucus Meeting- Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society)
February 7, 2017- Marcelle Cedars, M.D. Director Center for Reproductive Health, Director- Division of Endocrinology, Professor Obsterics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California- San Francisco. “Pre-implantation Screening: Where are we today?”
March 14, 2017- Robert “Bobby” Baron, M.D. Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of California- San Francisco. “Current Strategies for Managing Obesity”
April 18, 2017- Laurel Rice, M.D. Chair Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology- University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. “Myths in Gynecologic Oncology”
May 16, 2017- Kris Strohbehn, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vice Chair of Gynecology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. “Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Have We Moved Beyond Pomegranates and Pessaries?”
OCTOBER 13, 2015 --Neville Hacker, MD, MBBS, Gynecologic Oncology, Conjoint Professor, School of Women and Children Health, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales; Director of the Gynaecological Cancer Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia: “Update: Pre-Cancer and Cancer of the Vulva”
NOVEMBER 10, 2015 --PRESIDENT&CHOICE LECTURE: Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Director, Institute for Computational Health Sciences, Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF: “Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease”
JANUARY 12, 2016 --Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University; Director, Clinical Excellence Research Center: “Health Care Delivery: Providing More with Less”
FEBRUARY 9, 2016 --Mary E. Norton, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Clinical and Translational Genetics and Perinatal Medicine, UCSF: “NIPT for Aneuploidy, Microdeletions, and Now the Whole Genome: Is More Better?”
March 8, 2016 --Frank A. Chervenak, MD, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weil Medical College of Cornell University; Obstetrician/Gynecologist-in-Chief and Director of MFM at New York Presbyterian Hospital: “Controversies in Home Birth”
April 12, 2016 --Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD, Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: “Levels of Maternal Care: What Does This Mean in California?”
May 10, 2016 --Lesley Regan, MD, FRCOG, Chair, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Mary&Hospital, Imperial College, London: “Update on Recurrent Miscarriage”
OCTOBER 14, 2014 --Jaan Sidorov, MD, Internist and Health Care Policy Expert, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: “Potential Impacts of the MICRA Ballot Measure (California Proposition 46)”
NOVEMBER 11, 2014 --Robert Nachtigall, MD, Reproductive Endocrinologist, -Kaiser San Francisco: “Optimizing Natural Fertility with Evidence-Based Preconception Counseling”
JANUARY 13, 2015 --Ingrid E. Nygaard, MD, Urogynecologist, University of Utah: “New Developments Relating to Physical Activity and the Pelvic Floor”
FEBRUARY 10, 2015 --PRESIDENT&CHOICE LECTURE: Anna Glezar, MD, Psychiatrist, UCSF and Patricia -A. Robertson, MD, President SF Gynecological Society, Perinatologist, UCSF: “An Update on How to Recognize and Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD in Your Obstetric Patients”
March 10, 2015 --Paula J. Adams Hillard, MD, Adolescent Gynecology, Stanford: “What the Ob/Gyn Needs to Know About Relationship Abuse and Sexual and Reproductive Coercion in Adolescents”
April 14, 2015 --Jeff Stringer, MD, Ob/Gyn and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Schools of Medicine: “Global Health”
May 5, 2015 -Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD, Chair, Ob/Gyn, Oregon Health and Science University: “Controversy Surrounding New Definition of Periviability”
PAST MEETINGS- 2013-2014
OCTOBER 8, 2013 --Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Chief, Divisi on of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Duke University: “Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation: Current and Emerging Applications”
NOVEMBER 12, 2013 --Jeanne Conry, MD, PhD, President of ACOG, Kaiser Permanente, Roseville: “Reproductive Health and the Environment: Well Woman Care and Preconception Health on the National Agenda”
JANUARY 14, 2014 ---Louann Brizendine, MD, Director, Women&Mood and Hormone Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF: “The Female Brain”
February 11, 2014 --Maurice L. Druzin, MD,Professor and Vice-Chair, Dept. of Ob/Gyn, Stanford University. “New 2014 Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy, from ACOG and CMQCC”
March 11, 2014 --Oliver Dorigo , M.D., PhD, Director- -Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford University. “Molecular Therapies for Gynecologic Malignancies -Are We Making Progress?”
April 8, 2014 --Carolyn Westhoff, MD, Divisional Director, Family Planning and Preventative Services, Columbia University: “Is the Routine Pelvic Exam Obsolete?”
May 13, 2014 --President&Choice: -Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, Population and Family Planning, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley: “Sex, Ideology, and Religion: How Family Planning Frees Women and Changes the World”
October 9, 2012: Abner P. Korn, MD, Department of Ob/Gyn, UCSF “Should We Use Mesh for Vaginal Repair?”
November 13, 2012: R. James Brenner, MD, Director, Breast Imaging, Bay Imaging Consultants: “Conventional Breast Imaging and MRI in Screening and Staging of Breast Cancer: What the Gynecologist Needs to Know”
January 8, 2013: Catherine Bethan Powell, MD, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco: “Where Does Ovarian Cancer Come From? And Should the Gynecologist Be Removing Fallopian Tubes for Ovarian Cancer Prevention?”
February 12, 2013 -Barry Behr, PhD, Director, IVF Laboratory, Dept of Ob/Gyn, Stanford. “New Approaches to Non-Invasive Embryo Selection”
March 5, 2013 -Mary E. Norton, MD, Director, Perinatal Research, Department Ob/Gyn, Stanford: “What is the Future of Prenatal Genetic Testing? Cell Free DNA and Beyond”
April 9, 2013 -Jerome F. Strauss, III, MD, PhD, Dean, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University: “Disparities in Preterm Birth: Genes and the Environment”
May 14, 2013 -Erica Weiss, MD, Department of Ob/Gyn, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco: “Care of the Transgender Patient”
OCTOBER 11, 2011: Lynn Ponton, MD, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, “Sex Lives of Teenagers”
NOVEMBER 8, 2011: Diana Farmer, MD, Department of Surgery, UCSF Benioff-Children’s Hospital “Fetal Surgery: What's Old, What's New, What's Right”
JANUARY 10, 2012: Mitch Creinin, MD, Dept of Ob/Gyn, UC Davis, Emergency Contraception: “Does Plan B Deserve an “F”?”
February 7, 2012 -Mindy Goldman, MD, Dept of Ob/Gyn, UCSF. “Gynecology Care for Breast Cancer Survivors”
March 13, 2012- Robert (Robbie”) M. Pearl. MD, Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California. “Health Care in the 21st Century and the Impact of Health Care Reform”
April 17, 2012 -Robert E. Bristow, MD, Dept of Ob/Gyn, UC Irvine. “Robotic Surgery in Gynecology: New Treatment Paradigm or Technological Fad?”
May 8, 2012 - Paul Preston, MD, Department of Anesthesia, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, “Real-time Obstetrical Simulation/Critical Events Team Training” ----Also, Resident Research Day posters.
October 12, 2010: Michael Policar, MD, MPH -Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences UCSF, and Medical Director of the Family PACT Program (the family planning and STI program of the CA State Office of Family Planning). “What the New Healthcare Reform Legislation Means for OB/Gyn”
November 9, 2010: -George F. Sawaya, MD - Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF, and Director San Francisco General Hospital's Colposcopy and Cervical Dysplasia Clinic. “Rationale Behind Recommendations for Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening”
January 11, 2011: Tracey Woodruff -PhD, MPH-:Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF -, Director, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. “Environmental Determinants of Disease”
February 8, 2011: Elliott K. Main, MD - Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and -Principal Investigator for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC). “Maternal Mortality in California”
March 8, 2011: Michelle Y. Morrill, M.D.-: Director of Urogynecology. The Permanente Medical Group.San Francisco, CA. “I only Leak when I Laugh, or What My Doctor Can Do to Help?”
April 12, 2011: Catherine Y. Spong, MD - Chief, Pregnancy and Perinatology BranchEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. “Cesarean Delivery and VBAC: Lessons Learned?”
May 10, 2011: -Presidential Program: Mary Norton, M.D.- Guest Speaker: Aaron Caughey, M.D. and Resident Research Awards.
2009 -2010 Meeting -Dates
October 13, 2009 ----Isabelle Ryan, MD, Medical Co-Director, Pacific Fertility Center, San Francisco. “How Many Embryos to Transfer ? The Science and Ethics of This Quandry”
November 10, 2009 ----Joanne Silberner, Health Policy Correspondent for National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. “Overhauling the Health Care System : A Journalist’s View of the 2009 Effort”
January 12, 2010 -Bethan Powell, MD, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Kaiser Permanente, SF : “The Genetics of Gynecologic Cancers”
February 9, 2010 -Stephen Quake, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University. “Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnostics in the Genome Era”
March 9, 2010 -my McKenney, MD, Director of Perinatal Pathology, Stanford University “Placental Pathology : Indications for Examination and Findings Associated with Neonatal Brain Injury”
April 13, 2010 -Diana Pettiti, MD, MPH, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University. “The Hormone Wars”
May 11, 2010 - Ob/Gyn Resident Research Presentations
2008 - 2009 Meeting Dates
October 14, 2008- Alain Einthoven, Stanford University. “Healthcare Policy (McCain vs. Obama)”
November 11, 2008- Bill Parer, M.D. PhD. Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF. “An Update on Fetal Monitoring”
January 13, 2009- Eric Socol, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology: co-Director Uro-Gynecology, Stanford University. “Mid-Urethral Slings for Stress Urinary Incontinence”
February 10, 2009- Jane Chueh, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy, Stanford University Prenatal Diagnosis. “First Trimester Screening”
March 10, 2009- Lisa H. Harris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan. “In Vitro Fertilization in the US: The Reproduction of Stratified Reproduction”
April 14, 2009- Resident research day
May 12, 2009- Fung Lam, M.D., Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Vice-Chair, Department of Obstetrics, and Gynecology, California-Pacific Medical Center. Presidential Address: “Women in Space”
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