FACULTY & INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF

 

In addition to a well-trained, diverse OB/GYN faculty, the program includes subspecialists in gynecologic oncology, perinatology and reproductive endocrinology/infertility.

 

Department Chair and Professor

 

Conrad Chao, MD
Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clinical Professor

 

Dr. Conrad Chao, the Department Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the OB/GYN residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He served his fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Physiology at Loma Linda University and Oregon Health Sciences University. His research has included work in basic neuroscience focusing on the control of fetal cerebral blood flow and metabolism, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, perinatal pharmacology, and fetal behavior, as well as, clinical investigation, in which he directed a unit of the NIH Maternal-Fetal Medicine Network as well as serving as Associate Program Director for a General Clinical Research Center. Dr. Chao’s research focuses on novel strategies for the mathematical analysis of Doppler ultrasound waveforms, the clinical management of preterm labor, and outcome analysis of the STAN advanced total heart rate monitor.

 

 

Pamela Emeney, RN, MD
Residency Program Director

Assistant Clinical Professor

 

Dr. Emeney began her career in Palm Springs CA many years ago as a critical care nurse. She then switched to medicine and after one year as a family practice resident, she switched to OB/GYN and completed her training at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn New York. She then joined the faculty at Texas Tech and began to develop her two passions, laparoscopic surgery and adolescent GYN.

She then came to the University of California San Francisco Fresno four years ago, and has continued to peruse both minimally invasive surgery and adolescent GYN health care. As the program director, she brings an unusually talent, that of nurse and physician, and strives to provide MIS opportunities for the residents.

 

Paul Madsen, MD

Clinical Professor

 

Dr. Paul Madsen graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in 1958 and the Fresno ObGyn Residency Program in 1962, which was our first graduating class . Dr. Madsen became a partner of the Program Founder, Dr. Henry Tieche from the University of Michigan. Dr. Madsen then assumed the dual role of private practice and Program Chairman for many years.

He was a pioneer in the subspecialities of urogynecology and oncology in Fresno. He has enjoyed teaching many generations of graduating residents. Dr. Madsen retired from private practice but remains an active part time faculty sharing both his surgical skills and medical knowledge with medical students, residents and faculty. He is a wealth of knowledge to all he teaches.

 

 

Joseph Mansour, MD
Director of Ambulatory Services
Appointment Pending

 

Dr. Mansour comes to UCSF Fresno with a long and impressive career. He began his medical training at the French Faculty of Medicine in Beirut, Lebanon graduating with his MD degree in 1975. He then began his OB/GYN training in Paris/France at University Renee Descates graduated in 1978. After successfully completing his residency in Paris, he moved to the US and began a residency at Kern Medical Center/UCLA graduating in 1982.

 

Following this extensive training Dr. Mansour began a thriving private practice which he enjoyed but after 15 years made the difficult decision to return to medical education and began a fully time faculty position at Kern County Medical center in Bakersfield, CA. His passion for education led him to UCSF Fresno, and he began with our program in 2011 as a full time faculty.

 

He has received many honors throughout his career including several CREOG Excellence in Teaching awards, is a member of several medical societies, including a fellow in ACOG. He became board certified in 1985 and his are of interest is vaginal surgery and pelvic floor.

 

 

Minh Tang, MD
Clinical Instructor
Director of Low-Risk Obstetrics

 

Dr. Tang joined the faculty of UCSF Fresno OBGYN MEP in September of 2008. Dr. Tang provides supervision of low-risk wards and colposcopy and loop electrosurgical excision procedure clinics.

Robin Agnew, CNM
Clinical Instructor

 

CNM Agnew graduated from California State University Fresno in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. In 1998 she received a Masters in Nursing and a Family Nurse Practitioner Certification from California State University Fresno. The next year she completed her Certificate in Nurse Midwifery from the University of California San Francisco. CNM Agnew is currently certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and is registered as an Inpatient Obstetric Nurse with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses.

 

 

Gynecology Oncology

 

William Rich, MD
Clinical Professor

 

Dr. Rich is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology as well as his gynecologic oncology fellowship at the University of Southern California. After completing his training, Dr. Rich became a faculty at UC Irvine and after 5 years in academics, he began a successful private practice in downtown L A. Dr. Rich began to miss working with residents and medical students, and made a move to Fresno where he could combine his love of teaching with his desire to continue in private practice. Dr. Rich currently heads the oncology clinic at Community Regional Medical Center, runs a very successful private practice and still always makes time to teach residents, medical students and OB/GYN faculty. He is always the surgeon to call when help is needed.

 

 

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Brian Morgan, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor

 

Dr Morgan earned his BSc, MSc and PhD at the University of London. He then took up an appointment at The Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he ran a graduate program in human nutrition and pursued his research interests in fetal programming and brain development. After a term as Acting Director of The Institute of Human Nutrition he left Columbia and obtained his MD at the University of Miami, where he also completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology. After residency he moved on to Harbor UCLA where he did a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and was appointed a WRHR scholar. His research focuses on fetal programming and its effects on genomics. He now joins us at the UCSF Fresno educational program where his role is to assist in developing a research program in maternal-fetal medicine, teaching medical students and residents, and creating outreach clinical opportunities for resident training. In addition to Dr. Morgan’s research, he recently received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators for his outstanding performance in medical student and resident instruction.

Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

 

 

Michael Synn, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

 

Dr. Synn is one of California's leading obstetric, gynecological and fertility specialists. He joined Community Medical Centers in 1984 when he began his residency at the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program. He currently serves as an assistant clinical professor at UCSF Fresno and serves on Community’s Board of Trustees, as chairman of the Clovis Community Facility Executive Committee and the Quality Patient Safety Committee. In 2007, Dr. Synn was one of three doctors in a six-state region to receive the Physician Champion Award through VHA Inc., which brings together health care organizations in a nationwide alliance to improve health care. In addition to his other duties Dr. Synn also as as the Medical Director of Community Fertility Center, IVF Program at Clovis Community Medical Center.

 

Carlos E Sueldo, MD
Clinical Professor

 

Dr. Sueldo is a graduated of the medical school at the University of Buenos Aires, and a fellowship in Reproductive Medicine from University of Southern California. In addition to his UCSF Fresno academic appointment, Dr. Sueldo serves as the Co-Director of the Community Fertility Center, Fresno California and also serves as the Academic Director Center for Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Sueldo contributes an in-depth and world renown knowledge of infertility and reproductive medicine to the UCSF Fresno Faculty.

 

Urogynecology

 

Michael O'Shaughnessy, MD
Associate Clinical Professor

Dr. O'Shaughnessy is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School and the UCSF Fresno OB/GYN Residency Program. His chief clinical and teaching interests are in urogynecology and pelvic floor reconstructive surgery. He is director of the urogynecology clinic at UMC. Dr. O'Shaughnessy received the Kaiser Award for Clinical Teaching from UCSF in 1999 and was co-recipient of the UCSF Fresno Research Award in 1998. His current research activity includes paravaginal defect repair, primary perineal body repair, and the levator ani syndrome.

 

 

Administrative Staff

 

Diane Casey
Administrative Assistant

 

Diane is a native Fresnan. She joined the department in March 2000 and is an Administrative Assistant II, and performs duties associated with the residency training of physicians by supporting the Chairman, Program Director, and serving as the site coordinator for medical students. Diane is actively involved in the planning and implementation of a variety of program activities. Her experience includes 4 years in the admitting department at Veteran’s Hospital, 13 years as a teacher for the developmentally disabled population and 2 years as an Auditor, and 6 years as a secretary Program Manager for a catering non-profit agency that trained developmentally disabled individuals to become independent and work in their community and support themselves.

Diane’s’ extensive knowledge of Fresno, UCSF Fresno and Community regional hospital is only a small portion of the amazing support Diane gives to the Department. Anything you need, Diane can help you.

 

 

Alfred (Fritz) Peters, MDiv, MBA
Program Manager

 

As the program manager, Fritz helps to insure that the UCSF Fresno OBGYN residency meets all administrative requirements. Fritz’ daily activities included insuring that the program meets all the requirements of ACGME, and all residents meet the requirements to take the ABOG exam.Fritz interacts daily with faculty and residents and serves as a liaison between the Community Regional Hospital the the residency training program

Before coming to UCSF Fresno Fritz spent the first twelve years managing nongovernmental community development organizations in South America and Asia and developed methods for using women’s and children’s health indicators to measure nutritional, sanitary and economic development projects. After returning to the United States in 2003, Fritz worked as the executive director of a literature merchandising company where he develop skills in managing change and use of key performance indicators to drive and track change.

After joining UCSF Fresno in 2007, Fritz brought together both his background in women’s health and change management. During Fritz’ time he has developed means for measuring resident success and performance, and developing communications mechanisms to communicate progress to the residents and faculty. Fritz plays a vital role in the success of our department and is a resource for all he interacts with.

 

 

Heather Peters, MEd, PhD
Educational Administrator

 

Heather received her Ph.D. in post-secondary and adult education in 2007 from Capella University. She brings to the department a background in education and evaluation. With her guidance, the department has aligned medical practice with educational principles to create a comprehensive and individualized training for each resident. Her educational research focuses on the mentor-resident relationship’s contribution to improved learner efficacy.

 

 

Community Attending Physicians

In addition to our core full-time faculty, clinical experience is enhanced by volunteer clinical faculty members. This volunteer faculty provides a variety of clinical experiences ranging from private practice to specialty care. We are proud of our volunteer clinical faculty members as they share our dedication to quality resident education.

 

Michael Ayers, MD
Kelli Beingesser, MD
Christopher Bencomo, MD
Kanswer Dhami, MD
Jocelyn Craig, MD
Tiffany Isles, MD
Sharon Kopacz, MD
Fenglaly Lee, MD
Ronald Lichtenstein, MD
Christine Lopopolo, MD
Peter Nassar, MD
Gail Newel, MD
Tejinder Sandhu, MD
Jeffrey Thomas, MD
Shamsi Vatanna, MD
Kenneth Wright, MD
Oscar Young, DO