Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS

Professor
Family Community Medicine
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Dr. Dehlendorf is a family physician with fellowship training in family planning and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research, and the Director of the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program at UCSF. The program focuses on how to ensure people have access to the patient-centered care they need to optimize their sexual and reproductive health, with a particular focus on advancing equity and addressing disparities in reproductive health outcomes. Her research involves formative work to understand people’s preferences about reproductive health care, as well as developing and evaluating interventions to support individuals to make informed, value-concordant decisions about their reproductive health. She is the Director of the Family Medicine Fellowship in Family Planning at UCSF and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family & Community Medicine.

Featured Publications: 

Meeting the Needs of Postpartum Women With and Without a Recent Preterm Birth: Perceptions of Maternal Family Planning in Pediatrics.

Maternal and child health journal

Congdon JL, Trope LA, Bruce JS, Chung PJ, Dehlendorf C, Chamberlain LJ

Birth Control Connect: A randomized trial of an online group to disseminate contraceptive information.

Contraception

Dehlendorf C, Fox E, Sharma AE, Zhang J, Yang S, Centola D

Beyond same-day long-acting reversible contraceptive access: a person-centered framework for advancing high-quality, equitable contraceptive care.

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

Holt K, Reed R, Crear-Perry J, Scott C, Wulf S, Dehlendorf C

Patient-provider communication before and after implementation of the contraceptive decision support tool My Birth Control.

Patient education and counseling

Holt K, Kimport K, Kuppermann M, Fitzpatrick J, Steinauer J, Dehlendorf C

Reproductive Life Planning and Patient-Centered Care: Can the Inconsistencies be Reconciled?

Maternal and child health journal

Callegari LS, Aiken ARA, Dehlendorf C, Borrero S

Perspectives on Patient-Centered Family Planning Care from Incarcerated Girls: A Qualitative Study.

Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology

Ti A, Burns R, Barnert ES, Sufrin C, Dehlendorf C

Cluster randomized trial of a patient-centered contraceptive decision support tool, My Birth Control.

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

Dehlendorf C, Fitzpatrick J, Fox E, Holt K, Vittinghoff E, Reed R, Campora MP, Sokoloff A, Kuppermann M

Side Effects and Health Benefits of Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate: A Systematic Review.

Obstetrics and gynecology

Dianat S, Fox E, Ahrens KA, Upadhyay UD, Zlidar VM, Gallo MF, Stidd RL, Moskosky S, Dehlendorf C

Adapting the Interpersonal Quality in Family Planning care scale to assess patient perspectives on abortion care.

Journal of patient-reported outcomes

Donnelly KZ, Dehlendorf C, Reed R, Agusti D, Thompson R