Dr. Nicole Pacheco decided to pursue women’s mental health because of the desperate need to better recognize and acknowledge the impact of events such as pregnancy and childbirth on an individual.
Dr. Stephanie Le Melle discusses her current work, what drew her to psychiatry, inclusion and diversity, and recruiting and retaining underrepresented members in our faculty and training programs.
Many victims of mass shootings reported that the events were confusing and that it was hard to tell what was happening, said Ragy Girgis, MD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia.
Any life change, including hormonal shifts or other milestone events, can cause a worsening or re-awakening of eating disorder symptoms, Evelyn Attia, MD, noted.
“There is no question that eating disorders continue to affect women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond,” said Evelyn Attia, MD, director of the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders.
An intergenerational Clinical Health Justice Forum in December 2022 focused on medical education and health equity and drew more than 60 people from the Columbia medical community.
The Center for Practice Innovations is New York’s secret asset quietly helping to make the state’s 38,000 public sector behavioral health workforce among the best trained in the country.
"The chronic stress of caregiving and inequity can have deleterious consequences," said Martin Picard, PhD, associate professor of behavioral medicine (in psychiatry and neurology) at Columbia.
