Dr. Givens was concurrently a full-time clinician with the UCSF In Vitro Fertilization Program and an Assistant Professor of the UCSF Medical School.

She currently co-directs the Bay Area Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis Program (PGD) and directs Pacific Fertility Center's PGD/PGS Program.

Dr. Carolyn Givens is Board-Certified by The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

She remains actively involved locally in the San Francisco Ob/Gyn Society and as a member of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at California Pacific Medical Center (a leading Bay Area hospital group) and serves as a reviewer for the journals Fertil

She is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Pacific Coast Reproductive Society and the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, among many other organizations and societies.

Dr. Givens served as President of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society for 2010-2011 and has served on the Board of the Society from 2000-present.

She has been named since 2004 as one of "Best Doctors in America" and by her peers in a national survey.

In November of 1999, Dr. Givens left UCSF and joined the infertility specialists at Pacific Fertility Center.

Dr. Givens moved to San Francisco in 1990 to continue her training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of California, San Francisco. After fellowship training, she was invited to join the medical school faculty at UCSF.

She received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1986 and served a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Parkland Memorial Hospital from 1986 to 1990.