Professor and Chair, UCSF Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Dr. Linda Giudice 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 as well as environmental impacts on reproductive health and human embryonic stem cells as a resource for research.

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 a 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 on Stanford Hospital's medical staff for 19 years and was the director of the reproductive endocrinology and infertility division. She currently chairs the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network, is on the boards of directors of the Society for Women's Health Research and American Society for Reproductive Medicine and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In October 2005, she joined UCSF as the Robert B. Jaffe professor and chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.