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21 September 2002
Nancy Milliken, MD, Bio
Nancy Milliken, MD Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Programs Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Director, UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Director, UCSF Women’s Health
Nancy Milliken, MD, is a women's health advocate, a clinician, and an administrator. Milliken has devoted herself to effective career development of women and has relentlessly worked to improve the quality of health care for women. She is the Vice Chair for Clinical Programs in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, the Director and Co-Founder of UCSF Women's Health, an integrated clinical program with multiple locations in the Bay Area, and the Director of the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.
In 1996, Milliken led a multidisciplinary team at UCSF in successfully competing for one of the first six National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health (CoE) as designated by the federal government. Under her leadership, the UCSF CoE has developed partnerships within UCSF and with the communities it serves to: (a) advance research in women’s health; (b) develop models of comprehensive clinical care; (c) enhance community and patient education on issues relevant to women’s health; (d) ensure an up-to-date women’s health medical school curriculum; and (e) develop leadership potential and opportunities for women. The CoE is helping to galvanize support for women-focused programs on campus and is laying a foundation for the advancement of women in the future. As Director of the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, Milliken is developing programs to advance women's health across the lifespan. For her efforts, Milliken received the Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women in 2002.
One area of particular interest to Milliken is the mentoring of women contemplating or currently pursuing careers in the health professions. She has initiated widespread improvements in leadership development for women in research and academic programs, community education, and comprehensive clinical care. Milliken initiated a mentor program at UCSF to encourage young women to enter the field of women's health and co-founded the annual Young Women’s Health Conference.
Milliken has effectively assumed major leadership roles at UCSF. She serves as Vice Chair for Clinical Programs of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. In this position, she has assumed the lead role in adapting clinical practices so that women will continue to be adequately served, despite the dramatic changes brought about by a rapidly evolving health care marketplace. Since 1993, Milliken has led the UCSF effort to develop comprehensive clinical services for women. Today this exists as UCSF Women’s Health, a network of women-focused practices many of which are located in a newly renovated eight-story building dedicated to serving women’s health needs across the lifespan. Patients are seen for Ob-Gyn, Primary Care, Mammography, as well as in specialty clinics including Continence Center, Comprehensive Fibroid Center, Center for Reproductive Health, Ultrasound, and IVF Practice.
Milliken has long sought to improve the care of women by increasing their knowledge and their participation in decisions regarding their health. As a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at UCSF, she explored the ethical issues involved in reproductive decision-making and participated nationally in the debate regarding “maternal-fetal conflict.” Another area in which she has published, taught, and influenced policies is physician-patient sexual abuse or misconduct. She has served as the chair of several ad-hoc medical staff committees that addressed this issue. Milliken served on the Chancellor’s Committee to review Campus Sexual Assault Policy.
Milliken earned a B.A. from Harvard University, studied two years of pre-medicine at Stanford University, and received her M.D. from Duke Medical School in 1981. She served her residency in OB/GYN at Pennsylvania Hospital, and was awarded a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship in medical ethics at UCSF.
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