Sara Newmann, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Email: newmanns@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Sara Newmann received her undergraduate training from Wesleyan University, her medical training from Brown University and her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University. She received a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in maternal and child health and completed a Fellowship in Family Planning at UCSF. Sara is now assistant clinical professor in the San Francisco General Hospital Division of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF.

Her research focuses on cervical preparation for surgical abortion and on the integration of family planning into HIV care and treatment in Western Kenya. She is a recent recipient of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research HIV/AIDS Pilot Research award and the Hellman Family Award for Early Career Faculty. These awards will enable Sara to further her research in the area of gender relations, HIV, and family planning in western Kenya.
 

Areas of Interest:

• Health disparities in reproductive health care
• Family planning and HIV
• Same-day second-trimester surgical abortion

For a complete list of publications, please click here: Publications on PubMed


Updated February 2009