[4] Upon completing her residency and fellowship, Redberg accepted a faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 1991, where she is currently a professor of clinical medicine.
[6] As part of her fellowship, she began working as a health policy staff member for Senator Orrin Hatch whom she helped research and develop legislation related to the Food and Drug Administration and lead the implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act.
[3] When Redberg returned from her Fellowship, she focused much of her subsequent research on technology assessment and the evidence base and regulatory pathway for medical devices.
[3] Redberg frequently speaks with reporters of major media outlets on topics related to medical devices and health policy and has been featured in The New York Times,[8] The Wall Street Journal,[9] on National Public Radio[10] and The Today Show,[11] and in the George Polk Award-winning nominated Netflix documentary The Bleeding Edge.
[15] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Redberg was appointed the Araxe Vilensky Endowed Chair for her "long history and proven record of research.