Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine
Dr. Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who specializes in both Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics. She cares for individuals primarily through the Prenatal Diagnosis Center and the Fetal Treatment Center who are pregnant or considering pregnancy, particularly when complications arise such as fetal birth defects, fetal genetic diseases, maternal comorbidities or genetic diseases, and many others. Dr. Sparks is the Program Director for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at UCSF, serves as the Medical Director for the Prenatal Diagnosis Center at UCSF Benioff Children's Physicians (UBCP), is the co-Director of the Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) program at UCSF, and is the alternate PI at UCSF for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) research network. Dr. Sparks has a large focus on research, and is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator as well as an Investigator for the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine. Her research program focuses on developing a precision-based approach to care for non-immune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) and other fetal anomalies by establishing multicenter data over many years, performing genomic sequencing and other testing to discover the breadth of underlying causes, refining clinical testing algorithms, and developing novel in utero treatment approaches.