2018 STARS Hall of Fame

Dr. Heidi Wittenberg

Director, MoZaic Care & Medical Director, Gender Institute at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
El Camino HS

Dr. Heidi Wittenberg, a Sacramento-raised El Camino alumna, is a leading urogynecologist and gender-affirming surgeon based in San Francisco. After earning her B.S. in Genetics from UC Berkeley and her M.S. and M.D. from Chicago Medical School, she completed her residency at Johns Hopkins before returning to California to pioneer minimally invasive pelvic surgery—including creating centers of excellence at California Pacific Medical Center and Urogynecology Center of San Francisco.

In 2018, she founded MoZaic Care, becoming one of the first surgeons to focus exclusively on gender-confirmation procedures. She now serves as Medical Director of the Gender Institute at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and is an accredited Master Surgeon of Excellence in both gender affirmation and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery.

A dedicated advocate, Dr. Wittenberg leads surgical missions in Guatemala and locally for underserved patients. In 2011 and again in 2018, she received the Congressional Operations Access “Unsung Hero” award for her service