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Dr. Linda Giudice, Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF, is a biochemist, gynecologist and reproductive endocrinologist who specializes in endometriosis, implantation and ovulatory disorders, infertility, and assisted reproduction. In her research, she focuses on endometrial biology and placental-uterine interactions, environmental impacts on reproductive health, and human embryonic stem cells differentiating to the trophectoderm.
Dr. Giudice earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry at UCLA, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University, working under Nobel Laureate Gunter Blobel, and completed post-doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She earned her medical degree at Stanford University and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford and Washington University in St. Louis, as well as a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Stanford. She was a faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine for 19 years and was the Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility division there. She recently chaired the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network and was on the board of directors of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine from 2002–2007. She currently sits on the board of directors of the Society for Women's Health Research and the Institute of Medicine Health Sciences Policy Board. Dr. Giudice was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. In October 2005, she joined UCSF as the Robert B. Jaffe, MD, Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
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