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Stuart Menaker

MD

Family physician
Medical examiner for the FAA

Dr. Stuart Menaker is a family physician with a special interest in caring for families that include children and adolescents and for patients with men's health concerns. He also enjoys performing minor office procedures, such as removal of skin lesions, insertion or removal of intrauterine devices, vasectomies, and joint injections to relieve inflammation as well as other types of injections.

Menaker believes in the value of taking a team approach to keeping patients healthy, with the individual patient serving as captain of the team. In addition to caring for patients at UCSF, he is a senior medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Menaker earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. After working for 10 years in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, he moved to California to practice at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

For Menaker, moving to San Francisco and joining UCSF has been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

  • Education

    Baylor College of Medicine, 1987

  • Residencies

    University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Family Medicine, 1990

  • Board Certifications

    Family Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine

As a family doctor, I should be able to assist you with nearly all of your medical concerns and help you find the proper assistance with all the rest.

Where I see patients (1)

    My reviews

    4.8

    Overall Experience
    313 Ratings
    About our process
    Nov 27, 2023
    Excellent provider. I am very happy with his care.
    Nov 22, 2023
    Well taking care off.
    Oct 26, 2023
    Dr. Menaker was late for my appointment by 45 minutes.Once the appointment started I felt he prematurely stated that my child might have autism or developmental disabilities because he wasn't eating solids yet. Dr Menaker has had very little interactions with my child so to lead with these potential conditions seemed very premature and questionable. It was extremely alarming as a first time parent to hear this and I felt he could have done a better job highlighting a range of possibilities to test and rule out with a more systematic plan. There was no mention of autism screening in his summary report. I also felt that in the summary report there were several observations that my son had good range of motion and flexibility but I don't recall Dr Menaker ever testing for this. Previous doctors spent more time watching our son walk or stretching out his limbs but none of this was done.Overall although I know Dr Menaker is very experienced I felt he did not spend the right attention and care which was very distressing as a first time parent.
    Oct 17, 2023
    Dr Menaker was excellent
    Oct 13, 2023
    Dr Menaker listens observes offers a plan of action looks up potential providers and services and above all he is a wonderful person
    Sep 29, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is a very good doctor! He is really helpful knowledgeable and kind. I want to thank him for his help and cooperation.
    Sep 27, 2023
    Spent an hr with Dr. More time than when I was under the knife in other facilities
    Sep 21, 2023
    Dr Menaker is the best: incredibly attentive patient thorough. He empowers me to participate in my care by educating me about the things we discuss and helping guide my informed decisions. I consider myself lucky to be his patient!
    Sep 16, 2023
    I'm very impressed with thoroughness and professionalism that Dr. Menaker displays during each of my visits. He listens to my concerns and addresses them with high level of attention.
    Sep 16, 2023
    Dr Menaker is an outstanding physician. His warmth friendliness knowledge and humor made for a very satisfying visit.
    Sep 14, 2023
    Doctor is the best!
    Sep 07, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is a really great doctor. I've been experiencing pain since 2016 and none of my doctors knew the reason for it until I met Dr. Menaker he was the one who figured it out. I appreciate him very much. He's the best doctor!
    Sep 01, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is a great provider and an overall friendly person.
    Aug 29, 2023
    I would excitedly recommend Dr. Menaker to all my friends and family.
    Aug 18, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is an excellent doctor with splendid bedside manners.
    Aug 18, 2023
    I couldn't be happier with the care I received from Dr. Menaker. He spent a great deal of time with me and was very thorough and compassionate.
    Aug 12, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is an outstanding medical professional who has helped me improve my overall health in many ways. He listens carefully to my issues always provides helpful information and his check ups are thorough. I am very pleased to have him as my primary physician.
    Aug 10, 2023
    Dr. Menaker listened carefully and understand me he calm me down explain me well what could be then arrange me to go blood lab for testing.
    Aug 02, 2023
    Excellent care. The Doctor listened to my concerns and helped me understand.
    Jul 30, 2023
    Dr. Menaker and his team are excellent!
    Jun 29, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is absolutely amazing and I couldn't feel more grateful and lucky to have him as my doctor.
    Jun 14, 2023
    Dr. Menaker has a good "bedside" manner if that's the term to use. He includes his own experiences with some of his personal medical issues to give me a better perspective on diagnoses treatments and future items of concern for my overall well-being.
    May 24, 2023
    Excellent
    Apr 27, 2023
    It was a pleasure. Wonderful.
    Apr 09, 2023
    Dr Menaker has my health and wellbeing as first priority. I feel like I'm a partner in my own healthcare with him as my PCP. My overall experience with Dr Menaker and with UCSF in general has been outstanding. I consider the last 2 years I've been with UCSF as the best healthcare I've had in my life.
    Mar 30, 2023
    The care provider ignored my request to be on a smaller dose of my prescription. The way they explained my depression to me felt unintentionally patronizing. The care providers reasoning for keeping my at my current prescription dosage was that I'm depressed and said that he couldn't take me off of the medication despite that I never asked to be taken off just for the dose to be lowered so that I could address my anxiety (which is a symptom of the prescription)
    Mar 30, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is a masterclass in medical care. I have never been so satisfied? Delighted? Blown away? Platitudes fail. I could not be more grateful for the care I get from him and his team.
    Mar 29, 2023
    My first time seeing Dr Menaker. I found him very personable easy to talk to very thorough in his examination and comprehensive in is explanation of my issue and home exercises. For me it was a very positive experience and I left feeling relieved.
    Mar 14, 2023
    Listened intently provided all possible scenarios of what my pain could be. Examined me!
    Feb 27, 2023
    Truly the best primary care doctor I've ever had. Dr. Menaker goes above and beyond to not only develop a comprehensive understanding of me as a patient but also provide stat driven recommendations. I've been very impressed with my interactions with the doctor and am thankful for his feedback and his efforts to consult with his peers to discover the best options if he doesn't have it already. I know I am in great care and trust this doctor whole heartedly.
    Feb 11, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is an excellent doctor and a terrific representative of and ambassador for UCSF. I wholeheartedly trust and respect him and feel very fortunate to have him as my primary care doctor
    Feb 09, 2023
    He is very good doctor
    Feb 04, 2023
    Dr. Menaker is an excellent doctor.
    Feb 04, 2023
    This is the best team ever. They are extremely courteous caring and professional. When I left from the office I felt like I have a great doctor!
    Feb 01, 2023
    Dr Menaker is an outstanding PCP. I greatly appreciate his communication skills including listening to me explaining things fully and including me in decision making
    Jan 05, 2023
    Dr Menaker is also my Dad & sisters primary.
    Dec 22, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is hands-down the best PCP my family has had. We've recommended him to several others because he listens covers the tough topics and makes it easy to have an open conversation about gay health issues.
    Dec 10, 2022
    Always caring and attentive with choices for treatment
    Nov 17, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is the best
    Nov 15, 2022
    I preferred the experience at China Basin to this on at Parnassus. Both were good but China Basin was better.
    Nov 06, 2022
    I am establishing care with Dr. Menaker and he listened to all of my concerns took his time and established a strong therapeutic alliance with me. I feel very comfortable with him as my PCP.
    Oct 21, 2022
    We follow him wherever he goes. He is the very best
    Oct 15, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is very thoughtful and transparent. Answered all my Qs thank you!
    Oct 13, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is the most wonderful doctor I've ever had and I've had a lot of great doctors. He deserves a 10 out of 5 rating.
    Oct 07, 2022
    World-class
    Sep 13, 2022
    Grateful to be connected with a competent and compassionate doctor after my PCP's departure.
    Aug 12, 2022
    Dr Menaker has excellent bedside manner. Very professional and he made sure that I am well informed and part of the decision making about my health
    Aug 11, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is extremely professional helpful and affable! He carefully explained options and consequences and assured a mutually agreed path forward. UCSF is fortunate to have him!!
    Aug 05, 2022
    Everything was fantastic.
    Aug 05, 2022
    He's very professional in his performance and that is good.
    Aug 02, 2022
    Dr Menaker was very empathetic & comforted me not to worry about out of trend test results.
    Jul 21, 2022
    Dr Menaker made me feel very comfortable/confident in the change to him being my General Practitioner.
    Jul 16, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is a wonderful physician and gives great advise and encouragement.
    Jul 12, 2022
    Dr. Menaker is an ideal Dr. from the little things like rolling the Epic workstation closer to the chair where I sat to create a comfortable and connected conversation to his overall bedside manner and knowledge. (I liked his joke about reaching goals noting how he did not go to medical school to get all B's. LOL!) He's also a great listener.
    May 27, 2022
    Easy to talk with. Nice sense of humor.
    Apr 23, 2022
    He's fantastic. Very thoughtful but firm. Makes me want to make good changes
    Apr 22, 2022
    MY DR. IS AWESOME!
    Apr 12, 2022
    Superb in all respects. Proactive knowledgeable and thorough.
    Feb 13, 2022
    Limitation is that surgeon I saw--like almost all surgeons I've ever seen--cannot engage intellectually with non-surgical aspects of my case. It's obvious that surgery depts. In Medical schools and teaching hospitals place very little value on this (even if they have learned to demonstrate lip service to it).
    Feb 08, 2022
    Like I said before Dr Menaker is the best.

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