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Teresia Margareta O'Connor

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Teresia Margareta O'Connor, MD, MPH, FAAP

Professor, CNRC Associate Director

(832) 822-3436

Positions

Professor, CNRC Associate Director
Pediatrics
Nutrition; and Academic General Pediatrics
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Houston, TX, US
Adjunct Member
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

Texas Children's Hospital Clinical Care Center (Clinic)
Residents' Primary Care Group
6701 Fannin Street
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (346) 227-7275
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center (Office)
1100 Bates St; Room: CNRC-2034
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-6782
teresiao@bcm.edu

Education

Fellowship at 黑料社区
Houston, Texas, United States
MPH from University of Texas School of Public Health
Houston, Texas, United States
Residency at 黑料社区
Houston, Texas, United States
Pediatrics
MD from University Of Wisconsin Medical School
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
BS from University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Professional Statement

Teresia O鈥機onnor is a board certified, practicing general pediatrician and fellowship trained clinician researcher. Her research focuses on
a) Identifying strategies to best prevent and treat childhood obesity.
b) Providing better understanding of how parents (fathers and mothers) influence their children鈥檚 obesity-related behaviors through the framework of parenting styles and parenting practices.
c) Assessing how to use technology to improve the measurement of children鈥檚 obesity-related behaviors.
Much of her research is done under the auspice of promoting health equity among children in the Houston area, with a primary focus on Hispanic populations and culturally tailored approaches. She worked with a team to culturally adapt an obesity intervention targeting fathers and their 5-11 year old children, Healthy Dads Healthy Kids, for Hispanic families using the Ecological Validity Model to frame the adaptation (R34 HL131726-01). The efficacy of the resulting program, Pap谩s Saludables Ni帽os Saludables, is currently being assessed in a community based randomized clinical trial (R61/R33 HL155015). In collaboration with electrical engineers at Rice University, we developed a novel system to passively assess children鈥檚 technology and digital media use across devices (R01 DK113269, O鈥機onnor/Veeraraghavan (co-PI)). Using a team science approach, our team of behavioral researchers integrated with the engineers to developed and test the machine learning approach that makes up FLASH-TV and validated the new methods among youth. The technology we developed are currently being used with other approaches to directly and passively measure technology and digital media use among a cohort of preschool children to assess its association to their sleep, weight status and executive functioning over the following 12 months (P01 HD109876).

Selected Publications

  • Jimenez-Garcia JA, Musaad SM, Arredondo EM, Beltran A, Morgan PJ, Rayward A, Rueda J, Soltero EG, Zachariah JP, Baranowski T, O鈥機onnor TM. " Psychometric properties of a fathers鈥� outcome expectancies of lifestyle behaviors instrument for father-child reciprocal reinforcement. " Sci Rep. 2026 Sep ; [Epub ahead of print] : doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-70916-5.
  • Soltero EG, Partida M, Mihail S, Villanueva L, Lopez C, Musaad SM, O'Connor TM, Redondo MJ, Buman M, Thompson D. " " JMIR Res Protoc. 2026 Apr ; 15 : e75331.
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  • Mihail S, Partida M, Villanueva L, Thompson D, O'Connor TM, Musaad SM, Redondo MJ, Soltero EG. " " JMIR Form Res. 2026 Feb ; 10 : e67800.
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  • O鈥機onnor TM, Garza T, Alam U, Kumar Vadathya A, Moreno JP, Beltran A, Haidar S, Haidar N, Hughes SO, Thompson D, Musaad SMA, Baranowski T, Mendoza JA, Young J, Sano A, Veeraraghavan A. " " Behav Inf Technol. 2026 Feb ; 45 (3) : 564-575.
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Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics
International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Society of Pediatric Research

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