Riley Bove

Bove is a UCSF neurologist who sees patients at the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroinflammation Center at Mission Bay. The conditions her clinic profile lists are multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica and optic neuritis, and she offers video visits alongside the clinic. She founded UCSF's Sex And Gender-Enriched Neurology program, which tries to make neurological care account for pregnancy, menopause and other hormonal transitions. Most of her menopause work is research. She led the first randomized trial in menopausal women with MS and has written more than 25 papers on how estrogens and testosterone affect the course of MS. Before medicine she studied anthropology and spent several years travelling on a Fulbright grant doing ethnographic film work, and she speaks French and Spanish.

MD, MSCP