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Pilar Sanjuan is a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM), affiliated with the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA). Her work focuses on substance use disorders, maternal and child health, and neuroscientific mechanisms underlying addiction and trauma. She has contributed extensively to studies addressing prenatal exposure to substances, PTSD severity in pregnant individuals, and the intersection of mental health with substance use.
Her research spans neurophysiological studies of children exposed to alcohol prenatally, epidemiological analyses of infectious diseases among pregnant people with opioid use disorder (OUD), and methodological evaluations of interventions like ecological momentary assessment. Key initiatives include the MAT-LINK network, which tracks outcomes of medication for OUD during pregnancy across seven clinical sites.
Dr. Sanjuan’s work emphasizes translational research to improve maternal and child health outcomes, particularly in high-risk populations. She has published on topics such as ICD coding accuracy for overdoses, HIV and hepatitis C testing during pregnancy, and the psychosocial impacts of trauma on substance use behaviors.
- Key areas: Substance use in pregnancy, neuroimaging of PTSD effects, public health surveillance systems.
- Notable projects: MAT-LINK network, cluster analysis of ICD-coded data, longitudinal studies on prenatal OUD.
