University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Nicole Rosendale is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Neurohospitalist Division at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She attended New York University School of Medicine before moving to San Francisco for residency and fellowship training at UCSF. She is the Director of Inpatient Neurology Services at San Francisco General Hospital and Co-Director of UCSF BALANCE, a program dedicated to advancing neurologic health equity locally, nationally, and globally through education, research, clinical care, and community engagement. 

In addition to her clinical duties, Dr. Rosendale is dedicated to advancing health equity in neurology through research and education, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ health. Her work has defined the current state of scientific literature in neurologic LGBTQ+ health, educated around caring for transgender individuals in the acute setting, and exposed discrepancies between self-reported competence in caring for LGBTQ+ individuals and LGBTQ+ health knowledge in U.S. neurologists. 

She serves as a member of the American Academy of Neurology Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism and Social Justice (IDEAS) Subcommittee, is on the American Heart Association Bay Area Board of Directors, and is the Associate Editor of IDEAS for Continuum.