Heide Cruikshank

Heide Cruikshank is a nurse practitioner who specializes in reproductive health care. She particularly enjoys empowering her patients through education.

Cruikshank earned her bachelor's degree in nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and her master's degree in nursing at Georgetown University. She began her UCSF career specializing in reproductive endocrinology as part of the Center for Reproductive Health. Prior to joining UCSF, she worked as a certified nurse-midwife at the Minnesota Birth Center and as a labor nurse in the Memorial Hermann Health System.