Faculty

Michelle Ann Caesar is a graduate student researcher in the Center of Better Beginnings at the University of California San Diego. Michelle Ann earned her B.A. in Public Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine and her MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Maternal & Child Health at Boston University where her research focused on the life course, school health services, substance use in adolescents, and risk factors in pregnancy. She is currently a student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at UC San Diego and San Diego State University.

Michelle Ann’s research primarily focuses on in utero exposures and birth outcomes, risk factors for pregnancy and delivery complications, and gynecologic oncology.

Jocelyn Burridge is a graduate student researcher in the Center of Better Beginnings at the University of California San Diego. She completed her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, where she focused her research on medical device design in obstetrics and anesthesia for low resource settings. She then completed her Master of Public Health in Population and Health Sciences at the University of Michigan, before beginning her Joint Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at UC San Diego and San Diego State University.

Jocelyn’s research interests primarily focus on maternal exposures during pregnancy and adverse outcomes in offspring. She is particularly interested in how emerging genomic technologies can improve maternal and infant short and long-term health outcomes.

Dr. Bandoli is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Better Beginnings at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bandoli earned her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015, where her research and training focused on pediatric and perinatal epidemiology and epidemiologic methods. Dr. Bandoli completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Better Beginnings, and was the recipient of a NIH TL1 fellowship, where she researched maternal psychological health and neurodevelopment in the offspring.

Dr. Bandoli’s research primarily focuses on maternal exposures in pregnancy, including mental illness, medications, and alcohol and adverse outcomes in the offspring. She is particularly interested in ways to refine exposure assessment, primarily through statistical methodologies or inclusion of biomarkers. She is also an Associate Director in the Center for Life Course Research at UCSD, and teaches a graduate level course on life course research.

Dr. Miguel del Campo is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. del Campo cares for patients with dysmorphologic, genetic, and teratologic conditions at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and conducts clinical research projects in the Center for Better Beginnings at UCSD. His research interests include: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), limb defects and HOX signaling pathways, Williams syndrome, Autism, prenatal diagnosis through comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), Marfan syndrome and other connective tissue disorders.

Dr. del Campo developed and implemented the first Telegenetics consultation service and research program at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and from 2002 to 2009 he coordinated Orphanet Spain funded by the European Commission and is currently Director of its Scientific Committee. He brings international acclaim to the Center and is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, English and French, as well as proficient in Italian and Portuguese.