Pathik Wadhwa, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
University of California, Irvine
Psychiatry & Human Behavior
333 City Blvd. West, Suite 1200
Orange, CA
USA 92868

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Pathik D. Wadhwa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine.  He also holds joint appointments in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics.  In addition he is Director, University of California, Irvine Behavioral Perinatology/Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Research Program.  His medical degree and psychiatry residency were completed (1988) at the University of Poona, B. J. Medical College, India.  He completed his  Ph.D. (1993) at the University of California, Irvine.  His interests include behavioral perinatology, biobehavioral processes, stress, pregnancy, fetal development, prematurity, and fetal programming of health & disease.  Selected publications: Wadhwa PD, Sandman CA, Garite TJ (2001) The neurobiology of stress in human pregnancy. Prog Brain Res 133:131-142

Wadhwa PD, Culhane J, Rauh V, Barve SS, Sandman CA, Hobel CJ, Dunkel-Schetter C, Garite TJ (2001) Maternal stress, infection and preterm birth: a biobehavioral perspective. Paediatr Perinat Epidemio 15:17-29

Wadhwa PD, Glynn L, Hobel CJ, Garite TJ, Porto M, Chicz-DeMet A, Wiglesworth A, Sandman CA (2002) Behavioral Perinatology: Biobehavioral Processes in Human Fetal Development. Regul Pept 108:149-157

Federenko IS, Wadhwa PD (2004).  Effects of women’s mental health during pregnancy on developmental and health outcomes.  CNS Spectrums, 9(3):198-206.

Wadhwa PD, Garite TJ, Porto M, Chicz-DeMet A, Dunkel-Schetter C, Sandman CA (2004).  Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), preterm birth and fetal growth restriction: a prospective study.  Am J Obstet Gynecol, 191:1063-1069.

Wadhwa PD (2005).  Psychoneuroendocrine processes in human pregnancy influence fetal development and health.  Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30:724-743.

Wadhwa PD & Federenko IS (2006).  Prenatal stress, human fetal development and birth outcomes: implications for developmental origins of adult disease.  In D. M. Hodgson and C. L. Coe (eds.) Perinatal Programming: Early Life Determinants of Adult Health and Disease.  Taylor & Francis, London/New York, pp. 29-46.