A native San Franciscan, Dr. Leslie Kardos has practiced for over nineteen years. She completed her undergraduate degree in French and Physiology at UC Berkeley. She then moved to Boston and received her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Kardos did her residency training in OB/GYN at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. During this time she completed a course in advanced laparoscopy and was appointed administrative chief resident.Dr Kardos has become one of the leading gynecological surgeons in the Bay Area, and is currently focused almost exclusively on advanced laparoscopy and robotic surgery. Her goal is to offer minimally invasive surgery whenever possible.Dr. Kardos is trained to perform "scar-less" hysterectomies and other procedures with the Intuitive Single Site approach. She is one of the first benign gynecological surgeons in the country to use this approach.