General Info

Dr. Li Fan is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who offers comprehensive obstetrical and complete gynecological services at Obstetrics & Gynecology Li Fan MD, INC in Poway, California. Dr. Fan has over 17 years of experience in women’s health care and is committed to providing personalized, high-quality care for a wide range of women’s health issues and significant milestones. Dr. Fan received her MD from Southeast University Medical College, Nanjing, P.R. China with honors in 1989 and did her residency at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. She also has a Ph.D. in Physiology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from Cornell University Medical College, New York City. After her residency, she spent one year as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago before entering into private practice at West Suburban Ob/Gyn Ltd, Lombard, Illinois, in 2006, where she worked for nearly nine years. She started her current practice in Poway, California, in 2015. Dr. Fan’s clinical expertise includes managing low- and high-risk pregnancies, adolescent and menopausal gynecological problems, and abnormal uterine bleeding. She's also skilled in all minimally invasive gynecological and urogynecological surgeries along with hysteroscopies, colposcopies, and endometrial ablations. She has been recognized for her services by Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Chicago and the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. She is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, and medical Spanish, which makes her popular among patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. In her spare time, she enjoys painting, reading, and writing poetry, along with hiking and swimming. We believe in patient-centered care where the focus is on the whole woman–her body, heart and mind. Our goal is to provide care that is respectful and responsive to individual patient’s preferences, needs and values.