Associate Clinical Professor
UC San Diego Health
La Jolla, California, United States
Jerasimos (Jerry) Ballas is a board certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist who is interested in a broad spectrum of high-risk conditions in pregnancy, including prenatal diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment of abnormal placentation, idenitfying adverse social and environmental determinants of health, and exploring the fetal origins of disease. He is a waivered provider of Medication for Opioid Use Disorders and has established a growing referral base among regional obstetrical providers for pregnant patients with substance use and opioid use disorders.
As a full-time clinician, Dr. Ballas strives is to provide equitable access to quality, evidence-based care. He oversees high-risk clinics with UCSD residents and fellows, providing care to some of the most vulnerable pregnant patients in San Diego. In addition to broadening access to imaging and prenatal services, he focuses on creating systems with greater compassion and urgency in confronting many of the underlying socioeconomic and racial challenges that hinder healthcare delivery.
Dr. Ballas is a native New Yorker, initially raised Washington Heights and later in a small town an hour or so from the city called Warwick. For college and graduate school, he attended Boston University, where he obtained his Bachelors in Biology and Masters in Public Health. Dr. Ballas returned to New York for medical school at SUNY Downstate and then completed his OB/GYN residency at SUNY Stony Brook. He matched at UCSD for his MFM fellowship in 2010. Upon completing fellowship, he moved with his wife, Dr. Regina Troxell, to Houston, TX, where she had matched for residency. His first faculty position was at Baylor College of Medicine, where he worked until 2018 before returning to UC San Diego to join the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division. Dr. Ballas and Dr. Troxell have a seven-year-old daughter named Violet, who enjoys all the perks of growing up in San Diego.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM