Lealah Pollock, MD
Associate Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Lealah Pollock is a family doctor who specializes in primary and specialty care for women living with HIV throughout their lives, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. She also has a special interest in sexual and reproductive health and care for transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals.

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Pollock earned a master's degree in health and medical sciences at University of California, Berkeley and her medical degree from UCSF's joint medical program with UC Berkeley. She completed a residency in family and community medicine at UCSF.

Pollock's educational work focuses on training medical students and residents in care for underserved populations. She also teaches family planning to residents. As part of the National Clinician Consultation Center, she guides health care providers around the country on HIV prevention and treatment.

Pollock enjoys traveling, camping and cycling. She has ridden her bicycle, toting her tent, down the California coast, in eastern Oregon and through France.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2011
• M.S. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2008

Publications (9)

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Gender IdentityHomosexuality, MaleTranssexualismSelf ConceptBreastSocial DiscriminationHIV InfectionsMilk, HumanPregnancy Complications, InfectiousHealthcare DisparitiesTransgender PersonsReplantationInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalSocial StigmaFertilization

• 2023 updated guidelines on infant feeding and HIV in the United States: what are they and why have recommendations changed.
  Topics in antiviral medicine 2023 Pollock L, Levison J
• Tilting the Scale: Current Provider Perspectives and Practices on Breastfeeding with HIV in the United States.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2023 Lai A, Young ES, Kohrman H, Chateau G, Cohan D, Pollock L, Hahn M, Namusaazi B, Toini OT, Levison J, Ruel T
• Missed Opportunities for HIV Prevention in Perinatal Care Settings in the United States.
  Frontiers in reproductive health 2021 Pollock L, Warren M, Levison J
• ACOG Committee Opinion No. 752: Prenatal and Perinatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2019 Pollock L, Cohan D, Pecci CC, Mittal P
• Role of Preexposure Prophylaxis in the Reproductive Health of Women at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2018 Pollock L, Levison J

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• HIV-Associated Complications: A Systems-Based Approach.
  American family physician 2017 Chu C, Pollock LC, Selwyn PA
• 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
• 'You should build yourself up as a whole product': Transgender female identity in Lima, Peru.
  Global public health 2016 Pollock L, Silva-Santisteban A, Sevelius J, Salazar X
• Growth into manhood: identity development among female-to-male transgender youth.
  Culture, health & sexuality 2011 Pollock L, Eyre SL