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Julian T. Parer, Ph.D., M.D.

Perinatologist

Dr. Julian Parer is a perinatologist in UCSF Women's Health at Parnassus. He specializes in maternal-fetal medicine and high-risk pregnancies and has extensive experience caring for pregnant women with pregnancy loss and premature delivery, medical illnesses and Rh disease as well as most other complications of pregnancy. In addition, he works with the Fetal Treatment Center at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Together with all members of the obstetrical team, he is committed to enabling all of his patients to have as positive a pregnancy and birth experience as possible.

Parer earned a medical degree at the University of Washington in Seattle and completed a residency at the University of Southern California. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as maternal-fetal medicine.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Obstetrics Services at Parnassus
400 Parnassus Ave., Floor B1, Suite A-096
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2566
Fax: (415) 353-2496

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

More about Julian T. Parer

Additional Languages

Spanish

Education

University of Washington School of Medicine 1971

Residencies

USC Medical Center, OB/GYN 1974

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Llanos AJ, Ebensperger G, Herrera EA, Reyes RV, Moraga FA, Parer JT, Giussani DA. Counterpoint: High Altitude is not for the Birds! J Appl Physiol. 2011 Nov; 111(5):1515-8.
  2. Llanos AJ, Ebensperger G, Herrera EA, Reyes RV, Moraga FA, Parer JT, Giussani DA. Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: High altitude is/is not for the birds! J Appl Physiol. 2011 Nov; 111(5):1526.
  3. Moraga FA, Reyes RV, Herrera EA, Riquelme RA, Ebensperger G, Pulgar VM, Parer JT, Giussani DA, Llanos AJ. Role of the a-adrenergic system in femoral vascular reactivity in neonatal llamas and sheep: a comparative study between highland and lowland species. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2011 Oct; 301(4):R1153-60.
  4. Parer JT. Personalities, politics and territorial tiffs: a half century of fetal heart rate monitoring. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Jun; 204(6):548-50.
  5. Parer JT, King TL. Electronic fetal monitoring as a public health screening program: the arithmetic of failure [corrected]. Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Apr; 117(4):986; author reply 986-7.
  6. Llanos AJ, Ebensperger G, Herrera EA, Reyes RV, Pulgar VM, Serón-Ferré M, Díaz M, Parer JT, Giussani DA, Moraga FA, Riquelme RA. Fetal and postnatal pulmonary circulation in the Alto Andino. Placenta. 2011 Mar; 32 Suppl 2:S100-3.
  7. Parer JT, King TL. Fetal heart rate monitoring: the next step? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Dec; 203(6):520-1.
  8. Herrera EA, Riquelme RA, Ebensperger G, Reyes RV, Ulloa CE, Cabello G, Krause BJ, Parer JT, Giussani DA, Llanos AJ. Long-term exposure to high-altitude chronic hypoxia during gestation induces neonatal pulmonary hypertension at sea level. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2010 Dec; 299(6):R1676-84.
  9. Parer JT, Hamilton EF. Comparison of 5 experts and computer analysis in rule-based fetal heart rate interpretation. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Nov; 203(5):451.e1-7.
  10. Ueda K, Ikeda T, Katsuragi S, Parer JT. Spontaneous in utero recovery of a fetus in a brain death-like state. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2010 Apr; 36(2):393-6.
  11. Parer JT, Ikeda T, King TL. The 2008 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development report on fetal heart rate monitoring. Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Jul; 114(1):136-8.
  12. Herrera EA, Ebensperger G, Krause BJ, Riquelme RA, Reyes RV, Capetillo M, González S, Parer JT, Llanos AJ. Sildenafil reverses hypoxic pulmonary hypertension in highland and lowland newborn sheep. Pediatr Res. 2008 Feb; 63(2):169-75.
  13. Glenn OA, Bianco K, Barkovich AJ, Callen PW, Parer JT. Fetal cerebellar hemorrhage in parvovirus-associated non-immune hydrops fetalis. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2007 Oct; 20(10):769-72.
  14. Herrera EA, Reyes RV, Giussani DA, Riquelme RA, Sanhueza EM, Ebensperger G, Casanello P, Méndez N, Ebensperger R, Sepúlveda-Kattan E, Pulgar VM, Cabello G, Blanco CE, Hanson MA, Parer JT, Llanos AJ. Carbon monoxide: a novel pulmonary artery vasodilator in neonatal llamas of the Andean altiplano. Cardiovasc Res. 2008 Jan; 77(1):197-201.
  15. Westgate JA, Wibbens B, Bennet L, Wassink G, Parer JT, Gunn AJ. The intrapartum deceleration in center stage: a physiologic approach to the interpretation of fetal heart rate changes in labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Sep; 197(3):236.e1-11.
  16. Cohen AW, Hill W, Parer JT, Ogburn P, Stiller R, Yankowitz J, Amon E, Ferguson JE. Re: Professional liability payments in obstetrics and gynecology. Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Jul; 110(1):186; author reply 186-7.
  17. Parer JT, Ikeda T. A framework for standardized management of intrapartum fetal heart rate patterns. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Jul; 197(1):26.e1-6.
  18. Llanos AJ, Riquelme RA, Herrera EA, Ebensperger G, Krause B, Reyes RV, Sanhueza EM, Pulgar VM, Behn C, Cabello G, Parer JT, Giussani DA, Blanco CE, Hanson MA. Evolving in thin air--lessons from the llama fetus in the altiplano. Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2007 Sep 30; 158(2-3):298-306.
  19. Herrera EA, Pulgar VM, Riquelme RA, Sanhueza EM, Reyes RV, Ebensperger G, Parer JT, Valdéz EA, Giussani DA, Blanco CE, Hanson MA, Llanos AJ. High-altitude chronic hypoxia during gestation and after birth modifies cardiovascular responses in newborn sheep. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Jun; 292(6):R2234-40.
  20. Fick AL, Caughey AB, Parer JT. Transabdominal cerclage: can we predict who fails? J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2007 Jan; 20(1):63-7.

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