Research
Association between prenatal alcohol exposure and child socio-emotional development
Appointments
- Director, UCLA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Clinic
- Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
- Program Director, ABC Child Partial Outpatient Program
- Training Director, Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities
Biography
Dr. O’Connor’s current work examines psychosocial and psychiatric risk due to prenatal alcohol exposure. Dr. O’Connor has conducted research on the prevention of alcohol consumption in pregnant women, intervention with children with prenatal alcohol exposure, and medical and allied health education on prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
All of her work has focused on collaborative national initiatives with the long-term goal of developing best practice models to be disseminated on local, state, and national levels.
The overarching emphasis of Dr. O’Connor’s research career has been the development, evaluation, and dissemination of empirically supported assessment and treatment methods for high-risk children.
Publications
- Glaviano, A, Singh, SK, Lee, EHC, Okina, E, Lam, HY, Carbone, D et al.. Cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Pharmacol Rev. 2025;77 (2):100030. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmr.2024.100030. PubMed PMID:40148026 .
- Townsend, M, O'Connor, MJ, Spinner, JA, Amdani, S, Conway, J. Practice Variation in Thromboprophylaxis Management of Outpatient Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Patients: Survey of ACTION Providers. J Card Fail. 2025; :. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.02.017. PubMed PMID:40118201 .
- Ludomirsky, AB, Edelson, JB, Lin, KY, Berger, JH, O'Connor, MJ, Wittlieb-Weber, CA et al.. Hardly a Windfall: Prescribing Practices in Pediatric Heart Failure Around Food and Drug Administration Approval. JACC Adv. 2025;4 (4):101661. doi: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101661. PubMed PMID:40112573 PubMed Central PMC11968258.
- Pedretti, F, Abdalfttah, M, Pellegrino, B, Mateo, F, Martínez-Sanz, P, Herencia-Ropero, A et al.. Harnessing STING Signaling and Natural Killer Cells overcomes PARP Inhibitor Resistance in Homologous Recombination Deficient Breast Cancer. Cancer Res. 2025; :. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-2531. PubMed PMID:40067927 .
- Lanham, K, Melnick, BA, O'Connor, MJ, Bartler, A, Fuentes, RJC, Ho, KC et al.. Efficacy and Patient Satisfaction in Voice Feminization Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025; :. doi: 10.1002/ohn.1173. PubMed PMID:39963873 .