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Catherine Monk
Diana Vagelos Professor of Women’s Mental Health, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Irvington, New York
Catherine Monk, PhD, is the Diana Vagelos Professor of Women’s Mental Health and Chief, Division of Women’s Mental Health, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ob/Gyn), Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She directs the PerinatalPathways Lab focused on DOHaD/prenatal programming research and Women’s Mental Health @Ob/Gyn providing accessible, insurance-based mental health care to perinatal patients. Catherine directs the new Center for the Transition to Parenthood (TtP): Two Generation Impact in Ob/Gyn aiming to reinvent prenatal care by addressing the inter-related areas of parents’ prenatal impact on future children’s development and their own psychosocial needs.
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