Family Planning and Contraceptive Research
The Ryan Center at the University of Chicago Hospitals provides comprehensive, safe, and confidential reproductive healthcare. Here, women and girls have full access to family planning education and healthcare services.
Our knowledgeable physicians, nurses, and staff are dedicated to providing women with the best care possible. These same contraceptive specialists are also active in conducting clinical studies of different forms of contraception and are researching how socioeconomic issues and other factors affect family planning and the general health of women.
Complex Contraceptive Clinic
The Ryan Center offers special expertise in helping women with complex contraceptive needs and those seeking pregnancy options counseling.
Services include:
- Contraceptive options for high risk and medically complicated patients, such as those with a history of blood clots, cancer, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, gastric bypass, high blood pressure, HIV/AIDS, lupus and other autoimmune syndromes, migraines, morbid obesity, and stroke.
- Comprehensive contraceptive counseling and education
- Teen contraception services and counseling
- Peri-menopause contraception services and counseling
- Intrauterine device (IUD) insertion and removal
- Medical management of fibroid tumors and dysfunctional uterine bleeding
- Pre-sterilization counseling, tubal ligation, and Essure® services
- Norplant® and Implanon® removal
- Comprehensive reproductive options counseling:
- Adoption services
- Medical and surgical pregnancy termination services
- Medical and surgical treatment of miscarriage
- Pre- and post-procedure counseling
- Emergency contraception*
*Emergency Contraception
Patients who require immediate access to emergency contraception services should call the Emergency Contraception Hotline at 1-888-668-2528.
