Lisa Bodnar


Lisa Bodnar is an American nutritional and perinatal epidemiologist. She is the Vice-Chair for Research and a tenured professor at University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the contributions of pregnancy weight gain, dietary patterns, maternal obesity, and maternal vitamin D deficiency to adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes.

Education

In 1998, Lisa M. Bodnar graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a major in from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her dietetic internship at UNC Hospitals in 1998. She graduated with a Master of Public Health in the at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. Bodnar earned a Doctor of Philosophy in nutrition with a minor in epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, she conducted her postdoctoral research in reproductive biology at and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Career

Bodnar is a nutritional and perinatal epidemiologist. She is the Vice-Chair for Research and a tenured professor of epidemiology at University of Pittsburgh. Bodnar holds a secondary appointment in the . She is a registered dietitian and licensed nutritionist in Pennsylvania.
Bodnar has contributed her experience to several national panels that set guidelines for nutrition during pregnancy, including the , , and the that will provide evidence for the 2020 . 
Her research has been cited over 11,000 times in journals published in 21 languages from 108 countries in all regions of the world. Her work has been used in 9 reports of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, as well as key recommendations, practice guidelines or action statements from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the , the American Public Health Association and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, along with international agencies, including the World Health Organization.

Awards

Bodnar LM, Catov JM, Simhan HN, Holick MF, Powers RW, Roberts JM. Maternal vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of preeclampsia. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2007 Sep 1;92:3517-22. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2007-0718
Bodnar LM, Simhan HN, Powers RW, Frank MP, Cooperstein E, Roberts JM. High prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in black and white pregnant women residing in the northern United States and their neonates. The Journal of nutrition. 2007 Feb 1;137:447-52. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/137.2.447
Wisner KL, Sit DK, Hanusa BH, Moses-Kolko EL, Bogen DL, Hunker DF, Perel JM, Jones-Ivy S, Bodnar LM, Singer LT. Major depression and antidepressant treatment: impact on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes. American Journal of psychiatry. 2009 May;166:557-66.