Gretchen Bandoli

About

Gretchen Bandoli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego. Her research interests include pregnancy and early childhood determinants of health, with a focus on expanding methodology to characterize complex exposures across gestation, including substances such as alcohol and marijuana, as well as medications. She has been involved in multiple research projects funded by NIH, investigating topics such as parental alcohol and cannabis use before and during pregnancy, maternal and infant outcomes among pregnant women with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the impact of prenatal substance exposure on child development. Dr. Bandoli's work emphasizes understanding the effects of prenatal exposures on health outcomes and advancing analytical approaches in this field.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Obstetrics
• Psychotherapist
• Psychology
• Anesthesia
• Psychiatry
• Pediatrics
• Internal medicine
• Clinical psychology

Selected publications

• Psychological distress in pregnancy and postpartum

  Women and Birth · 2020 · 120 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Prenatal Antidepressant Use and Risk of Adverse Neonatal Outcomes

  PEDIATRICS · 2020 · 46 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  OBJECTIVES: To estimate the risk of neonatal outcomes from patterns of prenatal antidepressant use. METHODS: From the OptumLabs Data Warehouse, 226 932 singleton deliveries were identified. Antidepressant claims with coverage between the last menstrual period and 35 weeks' gestation were converted to fluoxetine equivalents, and a longitudinal cluster analysis was performed. Outcomes included major cardiac malformations (11.7 of 1000 births), preterm birth (75.7 of 1000 births), and newborn respi…

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• Endometriosis and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Dual-Cohort Study of Over 4 Million California Births

  Research Square · 2025-09-17 · 1 citations

  preprintOpen access
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• Varied human milk oligosaccharides in human milk from mothers treated with antidepressants and anti-inflammatories

  Pediatric Research · 2025-12-16 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access

  BACKGROUND: Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are abundant carbohydrates in human milk, providing infants with numerous health benefits, but it is not known whether maternal medications could affect them. We aimed to study the association between antidepressant and anti-inflammatory medication use and HMO composition in human milk. METHODS: This study included 544 human milk samples from the UC San Diego Human Milk Biorepository collected between October 2014 and November 2022 from participants…

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• Investigating Links Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Brain Development Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques: A Narrative Review

  Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science · 2025-10-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access

  Understanding the impact of prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) on brain development is increasingly important given rising cannabis use during pregnancy. Many existing reviews on this topic are more than 5 years old and may not reflect recent social shifts that could impact cannabis use during pregnancy; they also have not utilized the recently available large longitudinal datasets for more robust and population-representative investigations. In this narrative review, we aim to provide an updated…

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Recent grants

• 14/24 The Healthy Brain & Child Development National Consortium

  NIH · $8.0M · 2021–2026

• Applying Machine Learning in the Prediction and Identification of Children Affected by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure

  NIH · $527k · 2019–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Christina Chambers

  University of California, San Diego

  148 shared

• Rebecca J. Baer

  University of California, San Diego

  117 shared

• Mallory Owen

  Universidad Católica Santo Domingo

  35 shared

• Stephen F. Kingsmore

  Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego

  35 shared

• Yan Ding

  Children’s Institute

  32 shared

• Elizabeth Kiernan

  Children’s Institute

  32 shared

• Kevin Chau

  Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego

  31 shared

• Serge Batalov

  Children’s Institute

  31 shared

Education

• PhD, Epidemiology

  UCLA Health

  2015

• MPH, Epidemiology

  San Diego State University

  2011

• MBA, Finance

  Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

  2006

• BA, Natural Sciences

  Xavier University

  2000

Awards & honors

• UCSF 2016 - 2018 PTBi postdoctoral scholarship
• UCLA 2014 - 2015 Judith Blake memorial fellowship
• UCLA 2014 - 2015 Bixy doctoral fellowship award

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