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February 4, 2022
Family medicine’s core values include continuity of care, meeting patients’ and communities’ needs, care across the life course, and social justice. Abortion care is clearly aligned with these values, particularly in the current political and legislative climate, where access to abortion is increasingly limited and abortion care increasingly stigmatized. In this presentation, we will discuss the current state of abortion access, in California and the US as a whole, and will then review research done with new career family physicians about how they understand the values of our specialty and how this understanding relates to their decision making about abortion care. We will then discuss current initiatives to train and support family physicians to provide abortions. We will conclude with a panel discussion about how family physicians and the specialty of family medicine can act on our values through abortion care provision and advocacy and take questions from the audience.
Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS is a family physician with fellowship training in Family Planning and a Master’s degree in clinical research. She is the director of the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF, which aims to advance reproductive autonomy and well-being by conducting research and designing programs that center people’s experiences and preferences for sexual and reproductive health and health care, guided by an attention to the intersecting oppressions and structural injustices that impact people’s lives and health. Her research includes the development, evaluation and dissemination of interventions to better meet people’s reproductive needs, and formative research to better understand people’s reproductive health care experiences and preferences. In addition to her research, she provides primary care and abortion services within the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lealah Pollock, MD is a family doctor who specializes in care for women living with HIV throughout their lives, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. She is the Director of Women and Children's Consultation Services and the Perinatal HIV Hotline at the National Clinician Consultation Center, where she leads a team dedicated to helping providers around the country provide patient-centered and guideline-driven care to pregnant people with HIV and their families. She also provides primary and specialty care to female-identified and gender diverse people with HIV at UCSF and teaches and provides abortion services in the Bay Area. Dr. Pollock earned a master's degree in health and medical sciences at University of California, Berkeley and her medical degree from UCSF's joint medical program with UC Berkeley.
Montida Fleming, MD is a full spectrum family and community medicine doctor who has focused on comprehensive reproductive health care, addiction medicine, and gender affirming care. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Program where she trains family physicians in hospital medicine, early pregnancy and prenatal care, addiction medicine, and abortion care. In addition to providing and teaching abortion care in the Bay Area, she previously traveled to low-resource and restricted abortion access areas to provide care. Dr. Fleming currently practices gender affirming care and medication abortion care across multiple states via telehealth. Outside of clinical care, she participates in media, legislative, and AAFP advocacy efforts to improve and expand access to comprehensive reproductive health care, reduce barriers, and promote reproductive justice. She received her MD from Sydney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, and completed her residency at San Francisco General Hospital with the University of California, San Francisco.
February 4, 2022
Family medicine’s core values include continuity of care, meeting patients’ and communities’ needs, care across the life course, and social justice. Abortion care is clearly aligned with these values, particularly in the current political and legislative climate, where access to abortion is increasingly limited and abortion care increasingly stigmatized. In this presentation, we will discuss the current state of abortion access, in California and the US as a whole, and will then review research done with new career family physicians about how they understand the values of our specialty and how this understanding relates to their decision making about abortion care. We will then discuss current initiatives to train and support family physicians to provide abortions. We will conclude with a panel discussion about how family physicians and the specialty of family medicine can act on our values through abortion care provision and advocacy and take questions from the audience.
Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS is a family physician with fellowship training in Family Planning and a Master’s degree in clinical research. She is the director of the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF, which aims to advance reproductive autonomy and well-being by conducting research and designing programs that center people’s experiences and preferences for sexual and reproductive health and health care, guided by an attention to the intersecting oppressions and structural injustices that impact people’s lives and health. Her research includes the development, evaluation and dissemination of interventions to better meet people’s reproductive needs, and formative research to better understand people’s reproductive health care experiences and preferences. In addition to her research, she provides primary care and abortion services within the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lealah Pollock, MD is a family doctor who specializes in care for women living with HIV throughout their lives, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. She is the Director of Women and Children's Consultation Services and the Perinatal HIV Hotline at the National Clinician Consultation Center, where she leads a team dedicated to helping providers around the country provide patient-centered and guideline-driven care to pregnant people with HIV and their families. She also provides primary and specialty care to female-identified and gender diverse people with HIV at UCSF and teaches and provides abortion services in the Bay Area. Dr. Pollock earned a master's degree in health and medical sciences at University of California, Berkeley and her medical degree from UCSF's joint medical program with UC Berkeley.
Montida Fleming, MD is a full spectrum family and community medicine doctor who has focused on comprehensive reproductive health care, addiction medicine, and gender affirming care. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Program where she trains family physicians in hospital medicine, early pregnancy and prenatal care, addiction medicine, and abortion care. In addition to providing and teaching abortion care in the Bay Area, she previously traveled to low-resource and restricted abortion access areas to provide care. Dr. Fleming currently practices gender affirming care and medication abortion care across multiple states via telehealth. Outside of clinical care, she participates in media, legislative, and AAFP advocacy efforts to improve and expand access to comprehensive reproductive health care, reduce barriers, and promote reproductive justice. She received her MD from Sydney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, and completed her residency at San Francisco General Hospital with the University of California, San Francisco.
![[FCM Grand Rounds] The Changing Landscape of Primary Care: a Canadian perspective](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rKWlygHuZxw/mqdefault.jpg "[FCM Grand Rounds] The Changing Landscape of Primary Care: a Canadian perspective
April 5, 2024
In this presentation, Dr. Raza will provides a brief overview of the Canadian health care system, outlines how primary care and family medicine fit in, and explores the contemporary crisis and opportunities for reform.
Danyaal Raza is a family physician with Unity Health Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor with the University of Toronto’s Department of Family & Community Medicine. He is the founding physician lead of the Sumac Creek Health Centre in Toronto’s Regent Park, the largest social/public housing community in Canada, and a member of the Decent Work & Health Network. Dr. Raza has also served as Chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, is a Fellow of the Broadbent Institute, and in 2021 was named to The Medical Post’s ‘Power List’ as an influential physician voice in Canadian health policy.")
