Michael Policar, MD, MPH
Prof. Emeritus / Recall Facult
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MPH Healtrh Services Management UCLA School of Public Health 1986
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1976

Grants and Projects

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• National Network of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical Prevention Training Center, NIH, 2014-2019
• Univ of California, San Francisco Ca Std/hiv Prev Trng Center, NIH, 2014-2019
• California Std Hiv Prevention Training Center, NIH, 2011-2014

Publications (6)

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Reproductive Health ServicesIntrauterine DevicesContraceptives, OralDisclosureHealth Services AccessibilityHealth PersonnelContraceptionCaliforniaPregnancy, UnplannedPregnancy RateQuality Indicators, Health CareFamily Planning ServicesQuality of Health CareMotivationAbortion, Induced

• Performance measures for contraceptive care: what are we actually trying to measure?
  Contraception 2015 Dehlendorf C, Bellanca H, Policar M
• In a California program, quality and utilization reports on reproductive health services spurred providers to change.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Watts LA, Thiel de Bocanegra H, Darney PD, Hulett D, Howell M, Mikanda J, Zerne R, Policar MS
• Number of oral contraceptive pill packages dispensed and subsequent unintended pregnancies.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2011 Foster DG, Hulett D, Bradsberry M, Darney P, Policar M
• Number of oral contraceptive pill packages dispensed and subsequent unintended pregnancies.
  Contraception 2010 D. Foster, D. Hulett, M. Bradsberry, P. Darney, M. Policar
• Challenges in translating evidence to practice: the provision of intrauterine contraception.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2008 Harper CC, Blum M, de Bocanegra HT, Darney PD, Speidel JJ, Policar M, Drey EA
• Self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among family planning clients: ethnic differences in sexual risk behavior and HIV risk reduction.
  Ethnicity & disease 1993 Eversley RB, Policar M, White V, Grinstead O, Newstetter A, Avins A, Hearst N