Nancy Milliken, MD

Nancy Milliken, MD is Vice Dean, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco and Director, UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.

In 1996, Dr. Milliken led a multidisciplinary team at UCSF in successfully competing for one of the first National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health (COE) designations by the federal government. Under her leadership as its Director, the COE has developed partnerships within UCSF and with the communities it serves to advance research in women’s health; create models of comprehensive clinical care; promote partnerships with individual women and their communities on issues relevant their health; design women’s health curricula to train the next generation of researchers and clinicians; and develop leadership opportunities for women.

One area of particular interest to Dr. Milliken is the mentoring of women contemplating or currently pursuing careers in the health professions. She has supported widespread improvements in leadership development for women in research and academic programs, community education, and clinical care, including programs for young women in high school and college. In 2002 she earned the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women.

Dr. 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 pursued an Ob-Gyn Residency at Pennsylvania Hospital following which she was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholarship during which she studied medical ethics as it relates to reproductive health.