Dominika Seidman, MD
Associate Professor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Certificate in Restorative Justice University of California San Francisco 2025
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• fellowship Complex Family Planning University of California San Francisco 2017
• MAS Clinical Research University of California San Francisco 2015
• fellowship Reproductive Infectious Disease University of California San Francisco 2014
• residency OBGYN Northwestern 2013
• MD MD Harvard Medical School 2009
• BA Social Studies Harvard College 2003

Publications (71)

Top publication keywords:
TenofovirHIV InfectionsSexually Transmitted DiseasesFamily Planning ServicesTrichomonas VaginitisPregnancy Complications, InfectiousContraception BehaviorContraceptive Agents, FemaleSubstance-Related DisordersAnti-HIV AgentsPre-Exposure ProphylaxisContraceptionInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalSyphilis, CongenitalTrichomonas vaginalis

• Family Planning Counseling and Practices in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  Clinical transplantation 2024 Rajagopal S, Ritchie J, Seidman D, Perito ER, Adey D, Sarkar M
• Birth outcomes of individuals who have experienced incarceration during pregnancy.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2024 Miller-Bedell ER, Sie L, Carmichael SL, Matoba N, Weiner Y, Kim JJ, Anoshiravani A, Seidman D, Lyell DJ, Lee HC
• Substance use and menopausal symptoms among people with and without HIV in the US, 2008-2020.
  Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 2024 Knittel AK, Bullington BW, Edmonds A, Rahangdale L, Neal-Perry G, Ramirez C, Konkle-Parker D, Jones DL, Moran CA, Topper EF, Cejtin H, Seidman D, Kasseye SG, Wilson TE, Sharma A, Adimora AA
• Patients, colleagues, systems, and self: Exploring layers of physician emotions in caring for pregnant people who use substances and their newborns.
  Journal of substance use and addiction treatment 2024 Martinez NG, Seidman DL, Briscoe H, Hayes CM, Ojukwu EI, Paltin D, Roberts SCM
• Breastfeeding Initiation in People With Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2024 Blauvelt CA, Turcios S, Wen T, Boscardin J, Seidman D

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• Declining Prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis Diagnosed by Wet Mount in a Cohort of U.S. Women With and Without HIV.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2024 Daubert EM, Dionne J, Atrio J, Knittel AK, Kassaye SG, Seidman D, Long A, Brockmann S, Ofotokun I, Fischl MA, Massad LS, Weber KM
• Breastfeeding Among People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in North America: A Multisite Study.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Levison J, McKinney J, Duque A, Hawkins J, Bowden EVH, Dorland J, Bitnun A, Kazmi K, Campbell DM, MacGillivray J, Yudin MH, Powell A, Datta S, Abuogi L, Weinberg A, Rakhmanina N, Mareuil JW, Hitti J, …
• Reconsidering the use of urine drug testing in reproductive settings.
  American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM 2023 Martinez NG, Roberts SCM, Achu-Lopes RA, Samura TL, Seidman DL, Woodhams EJ
• A decision support tool has similar high PrEP uptake and increases early PrEP persistence in adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: results from a randomized controlled trial.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2023 Celum C, Seidman D, Travill D, Dehlendorf C, Gumede S, Zewdie K, Wilson W, Morton JF, Baeten JM, Donnell D, Delany-Moretlwe S
• Improving Reproductive Health Communication Between Providers and Women Affected by Homelessness and Substance Use in San Francisco: Results from a Community-Informed Workshop.
  Maternal and child health journal 2023 Wingo EE, Newmann SJ, Borne DE, Shapiro BJ, Seidman DL
• Patient and provider perspectives on barriers and facilitators to reproductive healthcare access for women experiencing homelessness with substance use disorders in San Francisco.
  Women's health (London, England) 2023 Schmidt CN, Wingo EE, Newmann SJ, Borne DE, Shapiro BJ, Seidman DL
• In-hospital Substance Use Policies: An Opportunity to Advance Equity, Reduce Stigma, and Offer Evidence-based Addiction Care.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2022 Martin M, Snyder HR, Otway G, Holpit L, Day LW, Seidman D
• Reimagining Preexposure Prophylaxis Provision for Women in the United States.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2022 Seidman D, Logan R, Weber S, Gandhi A, Blackstock O
• Premature and early menopause among US women with or at risk for HIV.
  Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 2022 Bullington BW, Edmonds A, Ramirez C, Rahangdale L, Neal-Perry G, Konkle-Parker D, Weiss DJ, Moran C, Golub ET, Cejtin H, Seidman D, Kassaye S, Wilson TE, Sharma A, Adimora AA, Knittel AK
• Congenital syphilis prevention in the context of methamphetamine use and homelessness.
  The American journal on addictions 2022 Plotzker RE, Burghardt NO, Murphy RD, McLean R, Jacobson K, Tang EC, Seidman D
• The Association Between HIV Status, Estradiol, and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Among Premenopausal Women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2022 Coburn SB, Dionne-Odom J, Alcaide ML, Moran CA, Rahangdale L, Golub ET, Massad LS, Seidman D, Michel KG, Minkoff H, Murphy K, Brown TT, Visvanathan K, Lau B, Althoff KN
• Lessons Learned from Longer Acting Reversible Contraception Applied to Longer Acting HIV Prevention Technologies.
  Current HIV/AIDS reports 2021 Logan R, Seidman D
• Associations between HIV, antiretroviral therapy and preterm birth in the US Women's Interagency HIV Study, 1995-2018: a prospective cohort.
  HIV medicine 2021 Venkatesh KK, Edmonds A, Westreich D, Dionne-Odom J, Weiss DJ, Sheth AN, Cejtin H, Seidman D, Kassaye S, Minkoff H, Atrio J, Rahangdale L, Adimora AA
• Trends in Bacterial Vaginosis Prevalence in a Cohort of U.S. Women with and at Risk for HIV.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2021 Massad LS, Daubert EM, Evans CT, Minkoff H, Kassaye S, Dionne-Odom J, Seidman D, Murphy K, Alcaide ML, Adimora AA, Sheth AN, Golub ET, French AL, Weber KM
• Homelessness in pregnancy: perinatal outcomes.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2021 St Martin BS, Spiegel AM, Sie L, Leonard SA, Seidman D, Girsen AI, Shaw GM, El-Sayed YY
• "Far More than Just a Prescription": Focus Groups With U.S. Family Planning Providers and Staff About Integrating PrEP for HIV Prevention Into Their Work.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2021 Razon N, Rodriguez A, Carlson K, Witt J, Logan R, Chambers B, Weber S, Seidman D
• Obesity is associated with lower bacterial vaginosis prevalence in menopausal but not pre-menopausal women in a retrospective analysis of the Women's Interagency HIV Study.
  PloS one 2021 Daubert E, Weber KM, French AL, Seidman D, Michel K, Gustafson D, Murphy K, Muzny CA, Alcaide M, Sheth A, Adimora AA, Spear GT
• Offering routine trichomonas vaginalis testing to patients presenting for abortion at an urban hospital-based clinic.
  Contraception 2021 Cheeks ML, Schwartz R, Oleson EC, Cohen S, Drey EA, Seidman D
• Patient-Led Decision-Making for HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis.
  Current HIV/AIDS reports 2021 Sewell WC, Solleveld P, Seidman D, Dehlendorf C, Marcus JL, Krakower DS
• Factors associated with syphilis seroprevalence in women with and at-risk for HIV infection in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (1994-2015).
  Sexually transmitted infections 2021 Aaron KJ, Brill I, Causey-Pruitt Z, Murphy K, Augenbraun M, Kassaye S, Milam JE, Seidman D, French AL, Gange SJ, Adimora AA, Sheth AN, Fischl MA, Van Der Pol B, Marrazzo J, Kempf MC, Dionne-Odom J
• Associations between HIV, antiretroviral therapy, and preterm birth in the women’s interagency HIV study, 1994-2018.
  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2020 K.K. Venkatesh, A. Edmonds, D. Westreich, J. Dionne-Odom, D.J. Weiss, A. Sheth, H. Cejtin, D. Seidman, S. Kassaye, H. Minkoff, J.M. Atrio, L. Rahangdale, A.A. Adimora
• Reproductive tract immune cells from pregnant women or those using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate show no excess susceptibility to HIV-1: Results of an ex vivo fusion assay.
  Contraception 2020 Seidman D, Cavrois M, Hilton JF, Roan NR, Averbach S, Takeda M, Chang E, Raman N, Greenblatt R, Shacklett BL, Smith-McCune K
• Family Planning in Liver Transplant: Patient and Provider Knowledge and Practices.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2020 Ritchie J, Seidman D, Srisengfa Y, Perito ER, Sarkar M
• Examining adherence barriers among women with HIV to tailor outreach for long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy.
  BMC women's health 2020 Benning L, Mantsios A, Kerrigan D, Coleman JS, Golub E, Blackstock O, Konkle-Parker D, Philbin M, Sheth A, Adimora AA, Cohen MH, Seidman D, Milam J, Kassaye SG, Taylor T, Murray M
• Patterns and Trajectories of Anal Intercourse Practice Over the Life Course Among US Women at Risk of HIV.
  The journal of sexual medicine 2020 Owen BN, Baggaley RF, Maheu-Giroux M, Elmes J, Adimora AA, Ramirez C, Edmonds A, Sosanya K, Taylor T, Plankey M, Cederbaum J, Seidman D, Weber KM, Golub ET, Sheth AN, Bolivar H, Konkle-Parker D, Boily…
• Homelessness, housing instability, and abortion outcomes at an urban abortion clinic in the United States.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2020 Orlando MS, Vable AM, Holt K, Wingo E, Newmann S, Shapiro BJ, Borne D, Drey EA, Seidman D
• Differential Effects of the Hormonal and Copper Intrauterine Device on the Endometrial Transcriptome.
  Scientific reports 2020 Smith-McCune K, Thomas R, Averbach S, Seidman D, Takeda M, Houshdaran S, Giudice LC
• Female genital tract shedding of HIV-1 is rare in women with suppressed HIV-1 in plasma.
  AIDS (London, England) 2020 Nelson JAE, De Paris K, Ramirez C, Edmonds A, Mollan KR, Bay CP, Compliment K, Herold BC, Anastos K, Minkoff H, Kassaye S, Seidman DL, French AL, Golub ET, Sheth AN, Ochsenbauer C, Swanstrom R, Eron …
• Effects of the levonorgestrel-containing intrauterine device, copper intrauterine device, and levonorgestrel-containing oral contraceptive on susceptibility of immune cells from cervix, endometrium and blood to HIV-1 fusion measured ex vivo.
  PloS one 2019 Cavrois M, Hilton JF, Roan NR, Takeda M, Seidman D, Averbach S, Chang E, Raman N, Greenblatt R, Shacklett BL, Smith-McCune K
• P728 Correlates of syphilis in women living with and without HIV in the US women’s interagency HIV study (WIHS).
  Sexually Transmitted Infections 2019 Kristal Aaron, Ilene Brill, Zenoria Causey, Kerry Murphy, Michael Augenbraun, Seble Kassaye, Joel Milam, Dominika Seidman, Audrey French, Stephen Gange, Adaora Adimora, Anandi Sheth, Margaret Fischl, …
• Menstrual cycle-dependent alterations in glycosylation: a roadmap for defining biomarkers of favorable and unfavorable mucus.
  Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics 2019 Reynoso-Prieto M, Takeda M, Prakobphol A, Seidman D, Averbach S, Fisher S, Smith-McCune K
• Deficiencies in Reproductive Health Counseling in Liver Transplant Patients [2H].
  Obstetrics and Gynecology 2019 Julia Ritchie, Dominika Seidman, Yanin Srisengfa, Vanessa L. Jacoby, Emily Perito, Monika Sarkar
• Brief Report: PrEP Eligibility Among At-Risk Women in the Southern United States: Associated Factors, Awareness, and Acceptability.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2019 Patel AS, Goparaju L, Sales JM, Mehta CC, Blackstock OJ, Seidman D, Ofotokun I, Kempf MC, Fischl MA, Golub ET, Adimora AA, French AL, DeHovitz J, Wingood G, Kassaye S, Sheth AN
• Do Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Preferences Predict Method Use and Satisfaction? A Survey of Northern California Family Planning Clients.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2019 Walker AW, Stern L, Cipres D, Rodriguez A, Alvarez J, Seidman D
• Development of MyPrEP, an integrated preexposure prophylaxis and contraceptive decision support tool for young women in South Africa and Kenya.
  Contraception 2018 W Wilson, J Fitzpatrick, D Travill, D Ang'awa, M Awuor, A Dollah, B Kwach, J Odoyo, C Celum, C Dehlendorf, D Seidman
• Housing status and abortion outcomes at a public hospital in San Francisco.
  Contraception 2018 M Orlando, S Newmann, E Drey, N Anderson, B Shapiro, D Borne, D Seidman
• Ensuring our research reflects our values: The role of family planning research in advancing reproductive autonomy.
  Contraception 2018 Dehlendorf C, Reed R, Fox E, Seidman D, Hall C, Steinauer J
• Family planning providers' role in offering PrEP to women.
  Contraception 2018 Seidman D, Weber S, Carlson K, Witt J
• Optimizing Delivery of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis for Women in the United States.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2018 Aaron E, Blum C, Seidman D, Hoyt MJ, Simone J, Sullivan M, Smith DK
• HIV target cells in the female reproductive tract: effects of hormonal or intrauterine contraception and pregnancy.
  Contraception 2017 D Seidman, M Cavrois, J Hilton, S Averbach, A Rodriguez, M Takeda, K Smith-McCune
• HIV-affected couples and individuals who desire children should be offered options for safer conception.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017 Pollock LC, Weber S, Kaida A, Matthews LT, Seidman DL
• Safer Conception and Contraceptive Counseling By Providers of Men Living With HIV in San Francisco.
  The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 2017 Orlando M, Weber S, Martinez R, Cohan D, Seidman D
• Is pericoital or peri-insemination preexposure prophylaxis effective human immunodeficiency prevention for vaginal exposures?
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2017 Seidman DL, Weber S, Grant RM
• Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV-1 Prevention.
  The New England journal of medicine 2017 Seidman D, Weber S, Aaron E
• Offering pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention to pregnant and postpartum women: a clinical approach.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017 Seidman DL, Weber S, Cohan D
• Implications of intrapartum azithromycin on neonatal microbiota.
  The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2017 Mei J, Harter K, Danhaive O, Seidman D, Vargas J
• Smoking, HIV, and risk of pregnancy loss.
  AIDS (London, England) 2017 Westreich D, Cates J, Cohen M, Weber KM, Seidman D, Cropsey K, Wright R, Milam J, Young MA, Mehta CC, Gustafson DR, Golub ET, Fischl MA, Adimora AA
• Racial/Ethnic Differences in Young Women's Health-Promoting Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability to Sexually Transmitted Infections.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2017 Cipres D, Rodriguez A, Alvarez J, Stern L, Steinauer J, Seidman D
• Effects of depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate on the immune microenvironment of the human cervix and endometrium: implications for HIV susceptibility.
  Mucosal immunology 2017 Smith-McCune KK, Hilton JF, Shanmugasundaram U, Critchfield JW, Greenblatt RM, Seidman D, Averbach S, Giudice LC, Shacklett BL
• Women's concerns regarding sexually transmitted infection compared with unwanted pregnancy.
  Contraception 2016 D Cipres, J Steinauer, A Rodriguez, J Alvarez, L Stern, D Seidman
• Contraceptive use and pregnancy intentions among transgender men presenting to a clinic for sex workers and their families in San Francisco.
  Contraception 2016 Cipres D, Seidman D, Cloniger C, Nova C, O'Shea A, Obedin-Maliver J
• Re: Prior uterine evacuation of pregnancy as independent risk factor for preterm birth: a systematic review and metaanalysis.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2016 Averbach SH, Seidman D, Steinauer J, Darney P
• Effects of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device on the immune microenvironment of the human cervix and endometrium.
  American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) 2016 Shanmugasundaram U, Hilton JF, Critchfield JW, Greenblatt RM, Giudice LC, Averbach S, Seidman D, Shacklett BL, Smith-McCune K
• Use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis during the preconception, antepartum and postpartum periods at two United States medical centers.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2016 Seidman DL, Weber S, Timoney MT, Oza KK, Mullins E, Cohan DL, Wright RL
• Integrating Preexposure Prophylaxis for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Into Women's Health Care in the United States.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2016 Seidman D, Weber S
• Emerging Technologies to Prevent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Women.
  Seminars in reproductive medicine 2016 Seidman D, Hemmerling A, Smith-McCune K
• Integrase inhibitors in late pregnancy and rapid HIV viral load reduction.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2016 Rahangdale L, Cates J, Potter J, Badell ML, Seidman D, Miller ES, Coleman JS, Lazenby GB, Levison J, Short WR, Yawetz S, Ciaranello A, Livingston E, Duthely L, Rimawi BH, Anderson JR, Stringer EM, …
• Intravaginal practices among HIV-negative female sex workers along the US-Mexico border and their implications for emerging HIV prevention interventions.
  International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 2016 Seidman D, Rusch M, Abramovitz D, Stockman JK, Martinez G, Rangel G, Vera A, Ulibarri MD, Strathdee SA
• United States family planning providers' knowledge of and attitudes towards preexposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: a national survey.
  Contraception 2016 Seidman D, Carlson K, Weber S, Witt J, Kelly PJ
• 21: Integrase strand transfer inhibitors given to HIV-infected women late in pregnancy decrease HIV viral load more quickly than other antiretroviral therapy (ART).
  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2016 Lisa Rahangdale, Jordan Cates, JoNell Potter, Martina L. Badell, Dominika Seidman, Emily S. Miller, Jenell S. Coleman, Gweneth B. Lazenby, Judy Levison, William R. Short, Sigal Yawetz, Andrea …
• Family planning providers' knowledge of and attitudes toward preexposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: a national survey.
  Contraception 2015 D. Seidman, K. Carlson, S. Weber, S. Newmann, J. Witt
• Interpretation, communication, and mechanisms of associations between injectable contraception and HIV risk.
  The lancet. HIV 2015 Seidman D, Averbach S, Smith-McCune K, Darney P
• A clinical approach to elimination of perinatal HIV transmission in resource-rich settings.
  International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 2015 Seidman D, Ruel T, Rahangdale L, Mittal P, Pecci C, Weber S, Goldschmidt R, Cohan D, Levison J
• The FACTS about women and pre-exposure prophylaxis.
  The lancet. HIV 2015 Seidman D, Weber S, Aaron E, Cohan D, Grant R
• Changes in care associated with the introduction of a postpartum hemorrhage patient safety program.
  American journal of perinatology 2013 Lappen JR, Seidman D, Burke C, Goetz K, Grobman WA
• Linezolid-induced lingua villosa nigra.
  The American journal of medicine 2008 Refaat M, Hyle E, Malhotra R, Seidman D, Dey B