INPATIENT, OUTPATIENT
The Division has a number of extremely active clinical activities providing diagnostic services, genetic and teratogen counseling, and long-term follow-up of children with birth defects throughout the region. Clinics are held in the city of San Diego, Tijuana, Mexico, and in newborn intensive care units throughout San Diego County. Inpatient consults are conducted at UCSD Medical Center (in the neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nursery and autopsy service), Scripps Mercy Hospital and Kaiser Permanente Hospital’s Zion facility. Outpatient consults and follow-up take place at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, Kaiser Permanente Hospital’s Vandevere facility and at Hospital del Infantil de las Californias in Tijuana.
Another major clinical service is delivered through the California Teratogen Information Service and Clinical Research Program. The program, which is directed by Dr. Chambers, provides counseling for pregnant women and physicians throughout California regarding the prenatal effects of drugs, chemicals, and environmental agents to which the pregnant woman may have been exposed. The program is located at UCSD, with satellite offices at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, UCLA and Stanford University.