USC Family Planning

USC Family Planning Outstanding reproductive healthcare and passionate advocacy based on the latest research and evidence.

If you are a patient and are seeking Family Planning Services at LA County + USC Medical Center, please contact us at (323) 409-6049.

And just like that, there were 3. ⭐⭐⭐We're going up up up. It's our moment. Doo do doo doo doo do Golden. 🎶
11/06/2025

And just like that, there were 3. ⭐⭐⭐
We're going up up up. It's our moment. Doo do doo doo doo do Golden. 🎶

I know she doesn't do social media (respect), but I'm sure folks who know her do and wanna make sure that she's apprecia...
10/27/2025

I know she doesn't do social media (respect), but I'm sure folks who know her do and wanna make sure that she's appreciated as well, so this is the gratitude post for Dr. Marit Pearlman Shapiro who had a panel on AVM diagnosis and management this year.

I'm so relieved to have her by my side as the APD at USC Family Planning. I don't have any doubt that when folks are with me that they're learning, but as an unapologetic workaholic, I'm often blind to some of the harmonizing and human elements that come so naturally to her and that she seamlessly blends into her critical and clinical thinking/teaching. I was so happy to know she was representing our program in a packed conference room, happier to know that I've got a team I can trust and with whom I can continue to grow alongside.

Congratulations to Dr. Jasmine Patel on winning Contraception's Daniel Mishell Jr award this year -- "Low to non-existen...
10/27/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Jasmine Patel on winning Contraception's Daniel Mishell Jr award this year -- "Low to non-existent s***m content of pre-ejaculate in perfect use contraceptive withdrawal."

It's challenging to convey just how important this moment was for our program and for myself personally, as a mentor. But let's try...

Daniel Mishell Jr was one of the founding fathers of contraceptive research at USC and founded the journal of Contraception. His legacy is long and upon his passing, no one could have ever anticipated the replication of rigorous research at our institution without him.

With medical education focused myopically on clinical protocols over foundational physiology, few people even know what questions remain unanswered in our field and what practices are based on evidence versus anecdotal assumptions, fewer even feel ready to tackle them on in research.

With universities and the job market for family planning emphasizing the need for generalist work in lieu of scientific and clinical investigations in family planning, the will to devote oneself to conducting and completing challenging studies can wane even further.

Conducting research is hard enough but when you have to embark on an experimental project with no clear template for reproducibility, that has you critically developing new methods, on a topic otherwise discarded by your field, and under relatively new and unproven mentorship at the time... Who would take that on?

These days folks get praise and prizes for participating and you'd think that maybe a newer investigator on the scene might get a handicap and win in a smaller pond, but the win was against some of the heaviest hitters in our field over the last year, voted on by a panel of highly respected faculty on the editorial board of Contraception.

As a full-time OBGYN who researches male-controlled family planning methods and whose career goal it's been to not only conduct the research, but expand the bench of sensitized researchers who would shift the focus of contraception onto men--this win is so validating and I could not thank Dr. Patel enough for her hard work and trust in the vision against countless odds. 🥹

Hot take from a self-proclaimed scientist... If you came to SFP for the science, you came for the wrong reason--you coul...
10/27/2025

Hot take from a self-proclaimed scientist... If you came to SFP for the science, you came for the wrong reason--you could've picked up an issue of Contraception for that one. 😅 You come for the community. Seldom do family planning specialists get to be surrounded by as much understanding and support for our day to day struggle at various levels. Seldom do we get to be in as much alignment. The opportunity to be inspired to keep pushing is priceless. Many not pictured, but all loved. This must be the place we call home.

New books for our family planning fellows!
10/07/2025

New books for our family planning fellows!

A career in family planning is not without its risks, and the risks for those who train from restrictive states is even ...
10/03/2025

A career in family planning is not without its risks, and the risks for those who train from restrictive states is even greater, which is why I have the utmost respect for those who persevere and charge into the fire because at their core they knew that it was the right thing to do -- "Someone's gotta be there for the patient."

We're so pleased to thus welcome Dr. Luke Hansen into the family planning family. With reproductive and human rights under continued attack in the United States it's so important to be training and empowering doctors who will go on to protect and preserve them.

Dr. Hansen joins us by way of Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center where he is completing his OBGYN residency. When not caring and advocating for patients, Dr. Hansen enjoys reading fantasy and cultural nonfiction. Fun fact, he's seen Beyonce in concert 4 times (which is probably 1 fewer than some of our residents 🫣🐝)!

Really cool people. Seriously one-of-a kind. Thank you.
09/06/2025

Really cool people. Seriously one-of-a kind. Thank you.

Just a couple of FP folks cheesing it up at the Essential Access Health Sexual Health Update. 🧀💛 Maybe also giving a tal...
06/20/2025

Just a couple of FP folks cheesing it up at the Essential Access Health Sexual Health Update. 🧀💛 Maybe also giving a talk or two on social determinants of abortion access and . 🫣

Let's be real, the real problem with having to determine if an obstetric emergency warrants an abortion is that we're n...
02/01/2025

Let's be real, the real problem with having to determine if an obstetric emergency warrants an abortion is that we're not asking what the patient thinks/wants. That's why this research showing that abortion restrictions haven't affected most emergency medicine physicians' clinical decision making about therapeutic abortion is reassuring. That being said, that at least 10% didn't think that it was the physicians responsibility if against state law is 🙄. Thanks Drs. Sangara & Lantos, as well as student Dr. Garza for the strong work!

Some people wait months, years for the most hyped up new album, sequel, sneaker, etc. For me, there's data. HMU if you f...
01/05/2025

Some people wait months, years for the most hyped up new album, sequel, sneaker, etc. For me, there's data. HMU if you feel me. Don't be shy. We got research to do.

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