Erin Matsuda directs the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, which cares for patients with birth defects. She focuses on the center's operations and workflow to ensure patients have access to the clinic and receive services in a timely manner.

Matsuda's research focuses on identifying patient care provided by nurse practitioners and assessing this contribution for payments systems based on...

Ms. Scudmore joined the Fetal Treatment Center team after 8 years of OB/GYN private practice in San Francisco as a Nurse Practitioner. As a Registered Nurse she worked in Adult Transitional Intensive Care Units. The Fetal Team is enhanced by her knowledge of Obstetrics and Adult Intensive Care experience. Janice is from San Francisco. She is a Graduate of San Francisco State University, where...

Veronica Cardenas-Lawrence began her nursing care in 2008 after graduating from Samuel Merritt University. She received her Master's degree in Nursing Case Management while working as a clinical nurse in the Intensive Care Nursery. There she specialized in the care of infants who were born with a variety of congenital disease, prematurity and neurologic injury. She has also worked as an...

Erin Corbett is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Fetal Treatment Center at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. She is a graduate of the UCSF School of Nursing, where she received her RN, Master’s Degree, and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner license. She worked as an RN in the BCH Oakland Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery, then as a Nurse Practitioner with Pediatric Surgery/Trauma. In 2012...

Francesca Perrone is a Nurse Practitioner at the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center. She received her Bachelors and Masters in Nursing at Columbia University, and completed a subspecialty in Genetics. After working in pediatric and adult primary Care in New York, she moved to San Francisco and spent 4 years at a Reproductive Endocrinology practice. Her passion for maternal health and genetics then...

Ms. Perry is a Clinical Nurse Coordinator at the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center. After receiving her nursing degree in 2004 she began her career in the Intensive Care Nursery at UCSF. She gained expertise in caring for both preterm babies and babies born with birth defects. In 2007 Rachel joined the Fetal Treatment Center as the nurse coordinator and specializes in pregnancies complicated by...