Dr. Stephanie Leonard

Biography

Stephanie Leonard, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Dunlevie Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center at Stanford University. She holds a courtesy appointment in Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. Dr. Leonard's research aims to advance equitable health outcomes for pregnant individuals and newborns, utilizing transdisciplinary methods in perinatal health research. Her primary focus involves addressing pregnancy-related morbidities through large data sources and improving treatment for chronic hypertension during pregnancy. She co-launched the OHDSI Pregnancy Reproductive Health Work Group and collaborates with the Harvard Program in Perinatal Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology. Dr. Leonard has received funding from the NHLBI and NICHD for her research initiatives. She trained in epidemiology at UCLA and UC Berkeley, emphasizing nutrition during pregnancy, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences.

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