Stefania Papatheodorou, MD, PhD, MSc

Biography

Stefania Papatheodorou is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and a trained obstetrician and gynecologist. She has been working on evidence synthesis for the last fifteen years on a variety of clinical topics with a primary focus on risk factors for pregnancy-related diseases such as gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia, prenatal diagnosis of fetal defects, and preterm delivery as well as longer-term outcomes such as children’s neurodevelopment due to environmental exposures during pregnancy. She has developed methods to quantify bias from different sources in evidence synthesis and facilitates these considerations in interpreting findings. She has also authored several umbrella reviews, summarizing evidence from multiple meta-analyses. She has been teaching the Evidence Synthesis methods courses at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health from 2018 to 2023.