Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Non-MD Cln Inves, Asst Prf (M) Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

Psychologist Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

PhD Columbia University in the City of New York 2009

birth outcomes; child development; depression postpartum; holocaust; maternal behavior; maternal health; mental illness; object attachment; parturition; post traumatic stress disorder; preterm delivery; psychological resilience; september 11 terrorist attacks; trauma; treatment
I study the psycholoical and biological mechanisms involved in optimal adaptation of mothers following the landmark event of childbirth. My research is focused on defining and characterizing posttraumatic stress syndrome induced by childbirth and its effect on mother's health and the offspring.