OBGYN - Key Persons
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- Summer Research Volunteer 2023
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- Volunteer Researcher and BISP199 2021 - 2023
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- Lab Manager / Admin Support
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Research Lab Management for: Alperin Lab
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- Volunteer Researcher and BISP199 2019 - 2021
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Internal Controls Management
Transaction Sampling
Administrative Tasks
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- Volunteer Researcher and BISP196 2020 - 2023
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- Lead Research Administrator
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Research Administration Leadership
Oversight of Research Portfolio: Averbach, Gyamfi-Bannerman, Jacobs, Laurent, Lewis, Lewis, Mody
Proposal Submissions
Post Award Administration
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- Lab Manager / Admin Support
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Research Lab Management for: Stupack Lab, Schlaepfer Lab
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- Vice Chair of Culture & Justice, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences
Dr. Meadows is a birth optimizer and health equity champion. She cares for women before, during and after pregnancy to ensure positive pregnancy and birth experiences. As an Obstetrician/Gynecologist and maternal health advocate, Dr. Meadows actively investigates strategies to optimize infant and maternal outcomes and to eliminate racial inequities associated with birth. For more than 15 years, she has been passionate about achieving health equity and creating value in clinical practice.
Dr. Meadows completed her medical education at the University of Texas at San Antonio, her OB/GYN residency training at The Brigham & Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School and the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health. She previously served as Medical Director of the BWH Ambulatory Obstetrics Practice and the City of Boston's maternal child health programs. This fall she joined the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UC San Diego, where she will devote time to prenatal care practice innovation, advocacy, and medical student and resident education. She is the founding director of the Maternal Innovation Collaborative that seeks to innovate and optimize care and experiences of pregnancy. This novel center will seek to innovate clinical strategies to prevent preterm birth and better serve those pregnant and parenting.
Abroad, she co-directs the Perinatal Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts (PNQIN), the state PQC for MA, and serves as faculty and board member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Better Maternal Outcomes project and the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement. In this work, she leads quality improvement projects to promote "teaming" and tools that improve obstetric safety and equity.
She is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Leaders Research Scholar and NIH-funded researcher investigating strategies to prevent maternal morbidity and achieve equity with a particular emphasis on including the voices of those pregnant and parenting in identifying these strategies.
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Faculty Support for: Mody, Averbach, Gupta, Culwell, Fellows, Perdion, Midwives
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- High School Research Intern
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- Undergraduate Researcher and Staff
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Conference Tracker
Generalist Faculty Support for: J Kingston; J Alvarado, P Deak, Delcore, Driebe, M Farrell, E Gross, D Klein, A Meadows, C Miller, K Macaulay, C Pickett, M Ramos-Rivera, J Resnik, M Ries, M Tang, S Thomson, S Varon
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- Senior Research Administrator
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Oversight of Research Portfolio: Church, Cook-Andersen, Duleba, Kauffman, Lawson, Ramos, Sisk-Hackworth, Su, Tarsa, Thackray, Woelkers
Proposal Submissions
Post Award Administration
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- Senior Research Administrator
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Oversight of Research Portfolio: Alperin, Brubaker, Burnett, Eskander, Lukacz, McHale, Routzong, Schlaepfer, Shimasaki, Stupack, Suyama
Proposal Submissions
Post Award Administration
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PAFAC Support
Family Planning Fellowship
JMC In-house/Weekend Rounding Call Schedule
Meet the Maternity Team
Faculty Support for: J Ballas; J Cormano, G Frugoni, S Harvey, M Hoang, Y LaCoursiere, L Lamale-Smith; A Melendez, A Sutton, N Teal, S Thomson, D Woelkers
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- Member of the Lab
- Staff Researcher
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- Undergraduate Researcher and Staff
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- Professor
- Professor, Department of OBGYN & Reproductive Sciences / University of California
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- Chairman
- Chairman Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences
- Professor and Chair / Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences / University of California
We are pleased to announce that Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., M.S. has been appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health. She succeeds Dr. Linda Brubaker, who served as interim department chair since July 2020.
Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman joins the faculty from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she spent the last 16 years of her career, most recently as the Ellen Jacobson Levine and Eugene Jacobson Professor and vice chair for faculty development in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman said she chose UC San Diego because of its innovative research environment, rich leadership history and remarkable patient care. As a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist, Gyamfi-Bannerman is internationally recognized for her work in obstetric complications with a primary focus on preterm birth.
She is also a perinatal epidemiologist with a Master of Science degree in biostatistics, answering clinical questions using available clinical data. In her leadership roles with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, she has co-authored numerous clinical guidelines for obstetric practice.
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread throughout the United States, New York City became an early epicenter. Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman and her team at Columbia University reported on the first cases of pregnant women infected with the virus, identifying atypical and asymptomatic presentations in this patient population and the need for personal protective equipment. Her experience resulted in becoming co-chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' COVID Task Force.
Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman has conducted multiple clinical trials and has published numerous research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She was the lead author on a large, multicenter, randomized clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that antenatal administration of betamethasone, a type of steroid, to women at risk for late preterm delivery significantly reduced the rate of neonatal respiratory complications. These findings changed clinical practice in the nation and in many other parts of the world.
Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman has been invited to speak about her research locally, nationally and internationally. She has served on several high-profile, professional committees and has been recognized with multiple honors and awards. She was named twice by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology for Research Excellence, received the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine research award and was elected to the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.
Born in Germany of Ghanaian descent, her diverse background has played an integral role in her life and career. As the director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Training Program at Columbia University, one of the largest programs of its kind in the country, Gyamfi-Bannerman oversaw the training and development of future maternal fetal medicine physicians and was able to increase the program's diversity. She also built out a research infrastructure where fellows routinely made national presentations and published work in top journals. Her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion will elevate the current work of the department's Culture and Justice Quorum. She will work with other department chairs to implement and advance the strategic plans of UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health.
Dr. Gyamfi-Bannerman earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Miami and her medical degree at the University of Miami School of Medicine. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital and her fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City before joining the faculty at Columbia.
She is married with two children. Her husband of 11 years, Christian Bannerman, M.D., will also be part of UC San Diego Health as an emergency physician. She said their family is looking forward to moving to warmer weather, going on hikes and enjoying San Diego's beaches.
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- Research Fellowship
- Scholarship for Undergraduate
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2003 - 2004
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2006 - 2007
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2010 - 2011
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2013 - 2014
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2015 - 2016
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2017
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2018
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- Research Associate ( 2013 - 2014 )
- Undergrad Researcher
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- Director of Business Operations
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Human Resources
MSP Contracts
Non-Salaried Appointments
PAFAC Support
Academic Personnel Liaison
Academic Affairs
Post Docs and Visas
Administrative Support Supervisor
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Grad Students
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- GME / ACGME Program Manager
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- Admin Support
- Executive Support
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Executive Support to Department Chair Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman
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- High School Research Intern
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- Admin Support
- Executive Support
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Faculty Recruitment
Faculty Support for: S Agarwal, A Duleba, S Shimasaki, I Su
Admin Support for: M Morales
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- Lab Manager
- Staff Research Associate and Laboratory Manager
Jacqueline Hernandez, M.S., Staff Research Associate
2021-present
Graduate of the BS/MS Program in Biological Sciences
2020-2021
BrightSpinnaker Fellowship 2021
Undergraduate Researcher
2019-2020
McNair Research Program
Endocrine Society, Summer Research Program
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- Member of the Lab
- Graduate Student
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Department Budgeting
Faculty Payroll/Timekeeping
Purchasing
Service Agreements
Express Cards
FINMAN
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- Residency Program Coordinator
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- Business Office Coordinator
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- Undergraduate Research Student
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- Genentech Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2021
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- Assistant Project Scientist
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- HHMI Research Fellow from Cleveland Clinic ( 2013 - 2014 )
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- Medical Student Researcher
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Department of OBGYN, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
My curiosity in understanding mechanisms controlling reproductive neuroendocrine function began with extensive experience in the sheep model, in which the power of hypothalamic-pituitary portal sampling can be exploited. Applying the fundamentals of hypothesis-driven science, my current research program employs state-of-the-art chemogenic, genetic, and neuroanatomical manipulations using mouse models to understand of how stress-activated neural circuits elicit disrupted reproduction and fertility.
The Breen Church Lab is Located on the third floor of the Leichtag Family Biomedical Research Building in the School of Medicine, on the La Jolla campus of UCSD. To get a map to our location, follow the link below:
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- Student Achievement Award, Southern California Branch of the American Society for Microbiology 2023
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- Endocrine Society MAP Summer Intern
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- Administrative Assistant
- Lab Manager / Admin Support
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Research Lab Management
Faculty Support for: H Cook-Andersen, K Fisch, M Jacobs, L Laurent, P Pantham, M Parast, M Wilkinson, Amanda Lewis, Warren Lewis, U Emeruwa
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- Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
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- Senior Research Administrator
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Oversight of Research Portfolio: Agarwal, Fisch, Lacoursiere, Meadows, Mellon, Pantham, Tan, Wilkinson, Williams (Varon), Cassin, Tonsfeldt, Zhu
Proposal Submissions
Post Award Administration
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- Undergraduate Research Student
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- Professor, Department of OBGYN & Reproductive Sciences
The Lawson Lab is Located on the 3 rd floor of the Leichtag Family Biomedical Research Building in the School of Medicine, on the La Jolla campus of UC San Diego.
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- Grad Student Extraordinaire
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- Co - Mentored With Dr. Scott Kelley at SDSU
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- Administrative Vice - Chair Department Business Officer
- Vice Chair, Administration
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Oversee administrative processes for research, clinical, and teaching missions.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local agencies
Oversee interface with other departments, community and other entities.
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- Endocrine Society MAP Summer Intern
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- Undergrad Researcher and Lab Technician
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Conference Tracker
Faculty Support for: J Kingston; J Alvarado, P Deak, Delcore, Driebe, M Farrell, E Gross, D Klein, A Meadows, C Miller, K Macaulay, C Pickett, M Ramos-Rivera, J Resnik, M Ries, M Tang, S Thomson, S Varon
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- Distinguished Professor
- Distinguished Professor and Vice - Chair for Research
- Vice Chair, Research
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- Laboratory Research Supervisor
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- Undergrad Researcher and Master 's Student
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- Undergrad Researcher and Lab Technician
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- Administrative Assistant
- Assistant
- Lab Manager / Admin Support
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- Member of the Lab
- Visiting Scientist
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- Member of the Lab
- Graduate Student
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- Director, Clinical Data & Mgmt / Director, Patient Client Services
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Clinical Practice Management and operational analysis/reporting
Financial Management
Departmental Marketing and Communications
Co-Chair - Patient and Family Advisory Council
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- Clinical Research Supervisor