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Stephanie L. Gaw, PhD, MD

Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States

Stephanie Gaw, MD PhD is an Associate Professor in Residence the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. Dr. Gaw completed her medical degree and PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, her residency training in OB/GYN at UCSF, and fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at UCLA. She has a long-standing interest in global infectious disease and maternal-child health, which started from her service as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Honduras and has led to her current research in perinatal infections. Her laboratory group conducts translational research on placental infections, including malaria in pregnancy, Zika virus, and SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy and lactation. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Reproductive Scientist Development Program, the Foundation for SMFM, the CDC Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Yellow Chair Foundation. An expert on infectious diseases in pregnancy, Dr. Gaw has served on advisory panels for the WHO, CDC, and the NIH on Zika, COVID-19, and tuberculosis in pregnancy. Clinically, she practices full spectrum Maternal-Fetal Medicine and leads a specialty clinic for pregnancies with infectious disease exposures.

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