Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS is Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her specialities include 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 and the combined Maternal-Fetal Medicine/Medical Genetics and Genomics fellowship programs at UCSF. She also 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. She is the co-Director of the Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) program at UCSF and the alternate PI at UCSF for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) research network. 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.