UCI Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

03/20/2026

Match Day 2026! Meet our new residency class that will be joining the UCI Department of OB/GYN. We are so excited to welcome you to the team!

03/20/2026

Happy Match Week! In honor of Match Day tomorrow we wanted to share match results for our current residents who matched into a fellowship as well as our incoming fellows that matched with our department for 2026.

03/16/2026

Celebrating Women’s History Month! This March we want to take the time to recognize the achievements of women in health care, both past and present. We are excited to announce our soon to be Interim Department Chair, Dr. Jennifer Butler.

Dr. Butler is currently serving as Executive Vice Chair and has held multiple leadership positions in our department over the years. She will be the first woman serving as Department Chair for OBGYN.

Dr. Butler has a clear vision for our department with the goals of delivering compassionate, equitable, and high-quality care to all our patients, with a particular focus on the underserved and marginalized populations, including those in our own community. We are committed to shaping the future of women’s health through innovation, evidence-based practices, and interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition to our goals with providing care, we are also dedicated to fostering a professional environment that supports the well-being, growth, and long-term job satisfaction of our faculty, trainees, and staff. Dr. Butler has led our hospitalist division and made great strides in growing this division over the years and we are so excited to see her lead our department as well.

03/10/2026

UCI Health has been named one of the top 165 places to work in healthcare for 2026 by Becker's Hospital Review.

The prestigious list recognizes hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that invest in their coworkers' well-being, satisfaction and fulfillment.

“A culture of excellence and innovation empowers our team members to make UCI Health the nation’s friendliest, most accessible healthcare system,” said UCI Health President and CEO Chad T. Lefteris. “A work environment that is supportive, positive and fosters belonging allows us to deliver the highest level of patient care.”

Learn more at https://bit.ly/3Nivmn8

02/28/2026

Thank a Resident Day! We love our residents and are so grateful for their commitment to learning. Thank you so much for all that you do!

02/26/2026

Every February, we take time to celebrate Black History Month. We recognize the achievements of Black pioneers in health care over the decades while also looking to the future to further improve health care for Black Americans. The California Department of Public Health recently announced the release of "Advancing Black Birth Equity Together in California," an action plan codeveloped with birth equity leaders to help to improve the health & well-being of Black mothers and families across the state. Read more: https://t.co/xZ3qtGEJtJ

If you'd also like to do further reading for Black History month, the UC Irvine Libraries have gathered a guide to available resources — including online collections, archival materials, recent book additions and other media — documenting and honoring Black history and culture. Visit:
https://news.lib.uci.edu/libraries-news/black-history-month-2026

02/20/2026

02/20/2026

Jonathan Steller, MD, is co-developing a space medicine, engineering and design program at the UC Irvine School of Medicine.

“I had this aha moment: If we’re planning to go to Mars or colonize space, we’ll need to understand the effects of spaceflight on reproductive health and fetal development,” says Steller, now an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UC Irvine who specializes in caring for high-risk pregnancies as a maternal-fetal medicine physician. That spark led to investigating how the environment beyond Earth’s atmosphere influences gynecologic and reproductive health, as well as roles with NASA and Vast Space, a private company aiming to launch a commercial space station next year.

Now Steller hopes to give future doctors an earlier liftoff into the world of space medicine. In collaboration with Ariana Nelson, MD, an associate clinical professor of anesthesiology at UC Irvine who also works with NASA and Vast Space, Steller is co-developing a space medicine, engineering and design program in the School of Medicine. The zenith of the program is Concepts of Space Medicine and Orbital Systems 401, a four-week elective course that immerses students in the science of space medicine. COSMOS 401 kicked off in the 2024-25 academic year to rave reviews.

"We hope to develop SpaceMED into a full mission-based program. We’re continuing to build it out to make it as rich as we possibly can. We don’t need every doctor in the world to understand what the space environment does to the human body, but with the expansion of human spaceflight, we will need some. We designed this program so future doctors can gain the knowledge and skills they need to help push space medicine forward."

Read more: https://medschool.uci.edu/news/medicine-meets-micro-gravity

02/18/2026

02/04/2026

Happy National Women Physicians Day! This day honors the pioneering achievements and ongoing contributions of female physicians in the field of health care.

Today we take time to acknowledge the vital roles that female physicians play in patient care, medical research and leadership within the health care field.

01/29/2026

Today is 1/23 ! ❤️ Every mother deserves safe, respectful, and quality care—before, during and after pregnancy.

Let’s take action to make that a reality. Here are two ways you can support:

1️⃣ Help families find maternal health tools at CA.gov/support/maternal-health-resources

2️⃣ Talk about maternal mental health and the importance of screenings

Maternal health is community health. When mothers thrive, our families and communities thrive, too.

01/29/2026