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Clinics & Locations
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Explore our network of care for kids, from the tiniest to teens and young adults.
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Our specialists handle conditions ranging from the common to the most rare.
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Why Choose Us?
Why Choose Us?
Best in Northern CA

We're ranked #1 in pediatric cancer, heart surgery, cardiology & more.

Robert Lindquist

Robert Lindquist

Robert Lindquist

MD, PhD

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Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
Fellowships

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Oakland GME, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Residencies

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Oakland GME, Pediatrics
Degree

MD, UCSF School of Medicine

Selected research

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All eyes on a phosphatase in glioma stem cells.
The Journal of experimental medicine
October 2021
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Identification of proliferative progenitors associated with prominent postnatal growth of the pons.
Nature communications
May 2016
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A Dorsal SHH-Dependent Domain in the V-SVZ Produces Large Numbers of Oligodendroglial Lineage Cells in the Postnatal Brain.
Stem cell reports
September 2015
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Fetal surgery firsts

The first open fetal surgery in the world was performed at UCSF in the early 1980s.