The Department of Family Health Care Nursing optimizes the health and well-being of children, women, and families in a changing multicultural society through our nursing programs of teaching, research and practice, as well as through community service locally and globally.
Family Health Care Nursing is a department within the School of Nursing.
Education
The Department of Family Health Care Nursing supports the education of nurses who become leading researchers and expert advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), with a focus on serving diverse and underserved communities. The specialties train both Master’s and Post-Master’s level APRN students along with doctoral students.
Certified Nurse Midwifery (CNM)/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP)
The Certified Nurse Midwifery (CNM)/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) specialty prepares advanced practice clinicians to provide primary care to childbearing individuals in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings including clinics, hospitals, homes and birth centers. The graduates provide care that is informed by a core belief in patient autonomy and the importance of supporting physiologic processes, including birth.
Family Nurse Practitioner
The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) specialty educates future health care leaders in clinical care, research and policy. We are committed to training providers who are dedicated to increasing health equity. Students learn to provide excellent community-based, primary care to a wide range of patient populations with complex health care needs.
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist
The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist specialties develop culturally sensitive providers who are able to address the complex health needs of acutely ill and recuperating neonates and infants and their families, and reduce disparity in neonatal care access. Students can choose to become either a neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) or neonatal clinical nurse specialist (CNS).
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care
The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care (PNP-AC) specialty prepares advanced practice clinicians who provide family-centered care to meet the specialized needs of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with unstable chronic, complex acute, and critical health conditions.
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Primary Care
The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care (PNP-PC) specialty prepares clinicians and leaders to promote health equity and optimal health from birth through young adulthood in ambulatory settings. Students develop knowledge and skills in pediatric primary health and chronic illness care for infants, children, and adolescents in community and clinic environments.
Research
Faculty research focuses on health and optimal development of children, adults and families across the lifespan; and developing and testing interventions to optimize health, quality of life, and health equity. Basic, clinical, policy and translational studies are conducted to develop knowledge about reciprocal relationships between family processes and health in acute and chronic illness. Additionally, faculty engage in research that optimizes health equity, prevention and wellness. Faculty research emphasizes partnerships with communities and research participants from diverse backgrounds where health disparities exist locally and globally.
Patient Care
The faculty in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing engage in active faculty practice across settings in the academic health centers and community settings.
- La Clinica de la Raza
- SFDPH Street Medicine and Shelter Health
- Stanford Children’s Health – Pediatric Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center
- UCSF Adolescent Health Clinic
- UCSF Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes
- UCSF Young Women’s Clinic
- ZSFGH Children’s Health Center (6M) – Primary Care, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Urology
- ZSFGH Familiy Health Center
- ZSFGH Women’s Health Center (5M)
Staff
Phyllis Blackwell
Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani
Brody Lowry
Laura Moy
Griselda Thomas
Jeremy Wong
Faculty
Linda Abramovitz**
Abbey Alkon
Rebecca Amirault*
Seth Ammerman**
Anne Arnhym**
Ifeyinwa Asiodu
Jessica Axelrod**
Ellen Bair**
Kimberly Baltzell
Debbie Bamberger**
Sarkis Banipalsin**
Michaela Barelka**
Ivette Becerra-Ortiz**
Emily Beck
Cynthia Belew
Amber Bell
Mindy Benson**
Tamar Besson**
Talia Borgo**
Rabea Bounar**
Michelle Buchholz
Sari Bushman**
Annette Carley
Kristine Carter**
Nicholas Carvelli**
Elizabeth Castillo
Gina Catena**
Elizabeth Causey**
Carrie Chan
Milan Chavarkar**
Jyu-Lin Chen
Nina Chu**
Elizabeth Colglazier**
Elizabeth Cook**
Dena Cuyjet**
Kim Dau
Melissa De La Mora**
Anne Debattista**
Ana Delgado*
Liz Donnelly**
Quoc Thien Du**
Diana Dukhovny**
Jennifer Dunn**
Suzanne Eder**
Ada Edwards**
Annika Ehrlich**
Natalee Ernstrom**
Carrie Evans
Joan Flores**
Gregory Foley**
Linda Franck
Elizabeth Gatewood
Caryl Gay
Asmara Gebre*
Bethany Geleris
Catherine Gilliss
Keely Giss**
Sharon Goldfarb**
Bridget Gramkowski
Joseph Harrison**
Anna Hines**
Fabienne Hollinger**
Kimberlee Honda**
Marianne Hultgren
Jay Hunter**
Margaret Hutchison*
Raluca Ioanid**
Julia Isen**
Mary Anne Israel
Lourdes Juarez**
Lindsey Justice**
Molly Kenward**
Tekoa King**
Jana Kohler
Rajashree Koppolu**
Roseanne Krauter**
Margaret Kray**
Angel Kuo
Andrea Kuster
Tiffany Lambright**
Bennett Lareau-Meredith**
Steven Leiner**
Mary Lesh**
Lisa Letishock**
Lin Lin
Siwei Liu**
Lisa Lommel
Rana Lozani**
Carolyn Lund**
Aubrey Lung**
Mary Lynch
Audrey Lyndon**
Nanette Madden**
Deena Mallareddy
Janis Mandac-Dy**
Carmen Mandac**
Jaclyn March**
Alison Marshall**
Sarah Martinho**
Mary Massella
Christine Mayor**
Mary Mays**
Colleen McEvoy**
Anne Marie McGrath**
Maureen McGrath
Jeff Mckinney**
Monica McLemore
Lisa Mihaly
Kara Myers
Shelly Nakaishi**
Sarah Nathan
Carolina Noya
Jerry John Nutor
Joan Okasako**
Tamara Ooms**
Maria Openshaw**
Mijung Park
Claire Parker**
Kristen Peek
Andrea Pfeffer**
Kim Pyke-Grimm**
Mary Rabitz**
Michalle Ramirez-McLaughlin
Ana Rapoport**
Carmen Rivera**
Meredith Russell**
Naomi Schapiro
Ellen Schell**
Kelly Schmidt**
Megan Schoettler**
Gabe Schwartz**
Andrew Shah**
Maureen Shannon
Pallavi Sheth**
Rebecca Silvers**
Tracy Sirota**
Shawna Sisler**
Kristen Sligar
Chrissy Smith**
Karen Sprague**
Tae-Wol Stanley**
Sandra Staveski
Linda Stephan
Rosa Maria Sternberg**
Naomi Stotland*
Margaret Sullivan**
Molly Szuminski
Mark Thomas**
Lisa Thompson**
Joyce Trompeta*
Susan Turpin**
Tara Valcarcel**
Susan Valentin**
Leila Van Gelder**
Brian Vassalo**
Gabrielle Westergren**
Gabe Westheimer**
Rebekah Wheeler**
Amy Willats**
Jodi Winemiller**
Robin Winokur**
Kirsten Wisner**
Laurie Yoder**
Rumi Yokota**
Jian Zhang**
* holds a joint appointment at the UCSF School of Nursing
** volunteer faculty member at the UCSF School of Nursing
Emeritus Faculty
Contact Us
Family Health Care Nursing
2 Koret Way, Box 0606
San Francisco, CA 94541
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