Shanae (Gigi) Bond
Mommy&Me Virtual Mommy Meet-ups Co-Facilitator
Shanae “Gigi” Bond, Mommy&Me(opens in new tab) Virtual Mommy Meet-ups co-facilitator and Stakeholder Engagement Core co-chair, is a mother of four, trained perinatal professional, doula, lactation specialist and a Founding Member of Moms’ Collective Wisdom. These focus group members provided comments that shaped this study proposal. Since Spring 2019, Gigi has been part of the DC Primary Care Association Maternal Health Equity Action Lab with other mothers in Washington, D.C., including Nandi (Barton) Mjenga(opens in new tab), Chanelle Moore, Mercedes Small-Lewis(opens in new tab) and Stephanie Wells(opens in new tab). The Equity Action Lab creates, explores and implements methods to improve maternal health outcomes in the D.C. area using human-centered design.
Gigi is passionate about motherhood and wants other women to receive the best care possible during pregnancy, birth and delivery, and the postpartum period. From 2016-2018, she worked as a family support worker at Mamatoto Village, a large organization that provides African American women with economic opportunities to empower women to receive optimal maternity care in culturally sensitive ways. Therefore, she has firsthand knowledge of what Black women need – from a personal and professional capacity. In her role as co-chair of the Stakeholder Engagement Core, she and Patricia Quinn strive to put the patient voice first in the design and implementation of this project. Together, their work has the potential to contribute to enhanced understanding of how screening and interventions work within the real-world healthcare system and to provide much-needed prevention and treatment of maternal mental health services to Black mothers in the Washington, D.C., area.
Key Studies
| April 2025 | Le HN, Andescavage N, Keller JM, Bassa MM, Danielson AL, Henderson D, Bond S, Mjenga N, Wells S, Quinn P, Limperopoulos C. Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mommy&Me Study: A Multi-Modal Approach to Address Social Determinants of Health and Mental Health Among Low-Income Black Perinatal Populations. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2025 Apr 21;45:101489. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101489. PMID: 40336702; PMCID: PMC12056800 | view |
Date: April 2022
Seed M, Limperopoulos C. In Utero Brain Growth Matters for Fetuses With Congenital Heart Disease. Circulation. 2022 Apr 12;145(15):1120-1122. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.058683. Epub 2022 Apr 11. PMID: 35404677
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35404677
Date: January 2010
Limperopoulos C, Tworetzky W, McElhinney DB, Newburger JW, Brown DW, Robertson RL Jr, Guizard N, McGrath E, Geva J, Annese D, Dunbar-Masterson C, Trainor B, Laussen PC, du Plessis AJ. Brain Volume and Metabolism in Fetuses With Congenital Heart Disease: Evaluation With Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy. Circulation. 2010 Jan 5;121(1):26-33. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.865568. Epub 2009 Dec 21. PMID: 20026783; PMCID: PMC2819908
View: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2819908
Date: February 2024
Wu Y, De Asis-Cruz J, Limperopoulos C. Brain Structural and Functional Outcomes in the Offspring of Women Experiencing Psychological Distress During Pregnancy. Molecular Psychiatry. 2024 Jul;29(7):2223-2240. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02449-0. Epub 2024 Feb 28. PMID: 38418579; PMCID: PMC11408260
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38418579
Date: April 2022
Wu Y, Espinosa KM, Barnett SD, Kapse A, Quistorff JL, Lopez C, Andescavage N, Pradhan S, Lu YC, Kapse K, Henderson D, Vezina G, Wessel D, du Plessis AJ, Limperopoulos C. Association of Elevated Maternal Psychological Distress, Altered Fetal Brain, and Offspring Cognitive and Social-Emotional Outcomes at 18 Months. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e229244. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.9244. PMID: 35486403; PMCID: PMC9055453
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35486403