Rajita G. Patil, MD

Dr. Rajita Patil is a board-certified Assistant Clinical Professor in OBGYN who strongly believes in delivering patient-centered care which considers the patient’s values and psychosocial factors to be just as important as their medical issues before providing medical treatment recommendations. She practices the full scope of obstetrics and gynecology, with additional expertise in complex family planning and menopause care.  Dr. Patil is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner and is the director of the Comprehensive Menopause Program at UCLA. She also has clinical expertise in providing comprehensive abortion and contraception care. 

Comprehensive Expertise

• Prenatal care (low and high risk)
• Office gynecology including well woman examinations
• Menopause/Perimenopause Care
• Contraception including difficult intrauterine devices and nexplanon placement and removals
• Comprehensive abortion care including Telehealth Abortion
• Telehealth
• Abnormal bleeding problems
• Pap smears and abnormalities
• In-office surgical procedures
• Benign vulvar and vaginal problems

Academic and Medical Staff Appointments

• Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Associate Program Director of the Complex Family Planning Fellowship
• Consultant Gynecologist at Arthur ASHE Student Health and Wellness Center
• Consultant Family Planning Specialist at the Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles

Professional Memberships

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Society of Family Planning
• North American Menopause Society