Karen Smith-mccune MD, PhD

Dr. Karen K. Smith-McCune is the John Kerner Endowed Professor in Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and is the director of the Dysplasia Clinic at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research interests are focused in abnormal pap smears, cervical pre-cancer, cervical cancer screening, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and vulvar disease. One of her main goals is to identify drugs that merit clinical testing for treatment of cervical dysplasia or cancer as well as to improve tests used by clinicians to quickly and accurately distinguish low-grade cervical dysplasias from high-grade ones. She is also one of the principal investigators on a project in Zimbabwe examining a barrier contraceptive and HPV acquisition. Her research involving gynecologic malignancies and dysplasia has been published in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology