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
- Asirwatham, A, Oliphant, MD, Kovell, LC, Ahmed, H, Kurland, J, O'Connor, MJ et al.. Secondary Hypertension Diagnosis and Management among Pregnant Patients: A Review. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2025; :101813. doi: 10.1016/j.ajogmf.2025.101813. PubMed PMID:41130571 .
- Mastroianni, MA, Timoney, BF, Abdelaziz, A, Gonzalez, MA, Ashinsky, BG, O'Connor, MJ et al.. The Impact of Resilience on Injury Incidence, Recovery, and Performance in Athletes: A Systematic Review. Orthop J Sports Med. 2025;13 (10):23259671251376705. doi: 10.1177/23259671251376705. PubMed PMID:41079758 PubMed Central PMC12508535.
- Catalano, MA, Shin, M, Toubat, O, Rastogi, R, Beqaj, H, Iyengar, A et al.. Listing for Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplantation Is Associated With Improved Waitlist Outcomes. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025;14 (20):e041633. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.125.041633. PubMed PMID:41065250 .
- Illuzzi, G, Galbiati, A, Staniszewska, AD, Hanson, R, Michaloglou, C, Cooke, SL et al.. Androgen receptor inhibition extends PARP inhibitor activity in prostate cancer models beyond BRCA mutations and defects in homologous recombination repair. NAR Cancer. 2025;7 (4):zcaf035. doi: 10.1093/narcan/zcaf035. PubMed PMID:41064809 PubMed Central PMC12501778.
- Chaudhary, AA, Srinivasan, C, Maeda, K, DeWitt, AG, Montgomery, C, Rastogi, R et al.. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy to Aid Ventricular Assist Device Explantation in Infants with Cardiomyopathy and Left Bundle Branch Block. Pediatr Cardiol. 2025; :. doi: 10.1007/s00246-025-04022-0. PubMed PMID:40932626 .