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sawayag@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Research interests: George F. Sawaya, MD is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).  He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His main research interest is in cervical cancer screening with particular interest in screening older women, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility, novel approaches to population-based screening and methods of informed shared decision-making. In 2001, he served on the American Cancer Society Cervical Cancer Screening guidelines committee and has authored screening guidelines for UCSF and SFGH. He developed and teaches the curriculum in evidence-based medicine required for all medical students at UCSF that includes critical appraisal skills, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and the evaluation of diagnostic and screening tests. He is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist based primarily at San Francisco General Hospital, where he is the Director of the Colposcopy and Cervical Dysplasia Clinic.

Publications Relevant to MERC

• Sawaya GF. Should routine screening Pap smears be done on women over the age of 65? Invited commentary. Archives of Internal Medicine 2004;164:243-245.Sawaya GF. Rebuttal to "The balance of harms, benefits, and costs of screening for cervical cancer in older women: the case for continued screening." Mandelblatt et al Arch Intern Med 2004;164:245-247. Archives of Internal Medicine 2004;164:247-248
  
  
• Sawaya, GF, McConnell KJ, Kulasingam SL, Myers ER, Kerlikowske K, Gildengorin G, Melnikow J, Lawson HW, Washington AE. Risk of cervical cancer associated with extending the interval between cervical-cancer screenings. New England Journal of Medicine 2003:349;1501-9
  
  
• Sawaya GF, Brown AD, Washington AE, Garber AM: Current approaches to cervical-cancer screening. New England Journal of Medicine 2001;344:1603-1607
  

• Stewart F, Harper C, Ellertson C, Grimes DA, Sawaya GF, Trussell J: Clinical breast and pelvic examination requirements for hormonal contraception: current practice vs evidence. JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association 2001;285:2232-2239
  

• Sawaya GF, Harper C, Balistreri L, Boggess J, Darney P: Cervical neoplasia risk in women provided hormonal contraception without a Pap smear. Contraception 2001;63:57-60
  

• Sawaya GF, Grady D, Kerlikowske K, La Valleur J, Barnabei VM, Bass K, Snyder TE, Pickar JH, Agarwal S, Mandelblatt J: The positive predictive value of cervical smears in previously-screened postmenopausal women: the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS). Annals of Internal Medicine 2000;133:942-950
  

• Sawaya GF, Kerlikowske K, Lee N, Gildengorin G, Washington AE: Frequency of cervical smear abnormalities within three years of normal cytology. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2000;96:219-23

• Sawaya GF, Grimes D: New technologies in cervical cytology screening: a word of caution. Obstetrics & Gynecology 1999; 94:307-10
  

• Kinney W, Sung H, Kearney K, Sawaya G, Miller M, Hiatt R: Missed opportunities for cervical cancer screening of HMO members developing invasive cervical cancer. Gynecologic Oncology 1998;71:428-30