Prof Riley Bove

Dr. Bove is a national and international leader in sex and gender aspects of Neurology, publishing, collaborating and lecturing widely on this topic. She is PI of the first industry-sponsored Phase IV trial of a medication for use in pregnant and lactating people with MS and led the first RCT in menopausal women with MS. She is founding Director of the SAGE (Sex and Gender Enriched) Neurology Program at UCSF, which provides specialized clinical care, education, and research focused on sex- and gender-informed neurology In the technology space, Dr. Bove has conducted innovative work designing, validating and implementing digital tools to improve care access, holistic measures of patient function, and as digital therapeutics. She is co-PI of the BRIDGE precision medicine dashboards that support delivery of point-of-care personalized medicine. Dr. Bove graduated Phi Beta Kappa in anthropology from Harvard College. She received her MD and MMSc from Harvard Medical School. She completed a neurology residency in the Massachusetts General/Brigham Hospitals program, followed by a clinical research fellowship at the Partners MS Center. Dr. Bove serves on the Science Committee of the American Academy of Neurology and is on the Editorial Board of Annals of Neurology and Neurology N2. She is committed to training the next generation of clinicians and scientists, and mentors students, doctoral and postdoctoral trainees in a variety of individualized clinical and training plans. Dr. Bove contributes to global neurology and equity initiatives through the Global Teleneurology Service and the BALANCE program.