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Shelley R. Ehrlich, MD, ScD, MPH


  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

ScD: Environmental Molecular and Perinatal Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA

Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

MPH: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

MD: Fluminense Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Hadassah Medical Center – Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Interests

Environmental molecular and perinatal epidemiology; obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine; endocrine disrupting chemicals; epigenetics; novel biomarkers; fetal programming of childhood diseases.

Publications

Long-Term Effects of Maternal Glycemic Measures in Pregnancy and Offspring Adverse Glycemic Outcomes: Results from the TEAM Study. Bowers, K; Bhoopathy, K; Szczesniak, R; Sawyer, RP; Shah, AS; Ehrlich, S; Dolan, LM; Summer, S; Smith, E; Altaye, M; Ollberding, NJ; Catalano, P; Khoury, JC. American Journal of Perinatology. 2026; 43(8):1082-1090.

Maternal Hyperglycemia and Adult Offspring Overweight and Obesity: Is Birthweight a Mediator? Mcwhorter, KL; Wells, G; Bowers, K; Summer, S; Dolan, L; Catalano, P; Szczesniak, RD; Altaye, M; Rosenn, B; Khoury, JC; Ehrlich, S. American Journal of Perinatology. 2026; 43(8):1031-1044.

Bacterial Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Intensive Care Units: A Multicenter Cohort Study to Investigate the Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Mortality. Costa, PDO; Ehrlich, S; Martins, IS. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2026.

Fellow-led case-based curriculum to improve pediatric resident education in the neonatal intensive care unit. Raynal, EA; Brady, JM; Ehrlich, SR; Liu, C; Johnson, BA; Hill, ME. BMC Medical Education. 2026; 26(1).

Personalized ADHD Medication Experiments to Inform Decisions About Continued Medication Use: An Open-Label Trial. Banister, AK; Epstein, JN; Hommel, KA; Breslin, M; Macdougall, MC; Ehrlich, S; Brinkman, WB. Academic Pediatrics. 2026; 26(3):103250.

Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and neonatal acute kidney injury after selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation. Obregon, E; Riddle, S; Chunyan, L; Ehrlich, S; Forde, B; Schuh, MP; Goldstein, SL; Slagle, CL. Pediatric Nephrology. 2026.

Prenatal repair of myelomeningocele is associated with lower need for long-term feeding support. Healy, J; Liu, C; Ehrlich, S; Lim, F-Y; Peiro, JL; Haberman, B; Stevenson, CB; Riddle, S. Journal of Perinatology. 2026; 46(3):437-444.

Reduced neural speech tracking in adolescents with listening difficulty. Kojima, K; Liu, C; Ehrlich, S; Dillon, H; Blankenship, C; Motlagh Zadeh, L; Vannest, J; Hunter, L; Nagarajan, S; Moore, DR. Clinical Neurophysiology. 2026; 183:2111502.

Patterns of weight gain during the first half of pregnancy and risk of large newborns in women with insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus. Mcwhorter, KL; Bowers, K; Ghulam, E; Szczesniak, RD; Ehrlich, S; Dolan, LM; Deka, R; Miodovnik, M; Khoury, JC. Pregnancy. 2026; 2(2).

Neonatal Malnutrition Diagnoses Align Differently With Body Composition Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Evaluating 3 Different Growth Standards. Perna, L; Mcnelis, K; Wessel, J; Barr, SM; Liu, C; Ehrlich, S; Kim, JH; Fu, TT. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2026; 156304.

From the Blog

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Shelley R. Ehrlich, MD, ScD, MPH4/19/2021