Tolu Akinade is a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Yale University, where she is part of the Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) and an incoming scholar with the NCRP Scholars Program. Before residency, she graduated from Columbia University in 2015 with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and then obtained her MD/PhD from Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her current NTRP research focuses on better understanding and improving treatments for perinatal mental health, particularly perinatal anxiety. Her passion for women’s mental health is also reflected in her leadership role as the co-chair for the Women’s Mental Health Conference (WMHC) at Yale —the first trainee-initiated national conference of its kind –for the past 2 years. Tolu leads the Women in Psychiatry and Women’s Mental Health interest groups within Yale’s Psychiatry Residents’ Association. She is also on the psychotherapy distinction track. Outside of medicine, she enjoys exploring new restaurants, Pilates, and traveling.

Julia Frew, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology and Vice Chair for Education in the Psychiatry Department at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where she is also the Associate Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. Julie attended medical school in the Brown-Dartmouth Program in Medical Education and completed her adult psychiatry residency at Dartmouth. She directs a perinatal psychiatry consultation clinic as well as the Dartmouth Health Moms in Recovery Program, which provides integrated medical care, mental health treatment, and substance use disorder treatment for pregnant and parenting individuals with substance use disorders. Dr. Frew’s clinical and research interests focus on the care of pregnant and parenting women with psychiatric illness and substance use disorders. She serves on the leadership team for the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, an online curriculum providing reproductive psychiatry training to Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology trainees and practicing providers.

Dr. Soudabeh Givrad is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and attending psychiatrist at Stanford Children’s Health/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Dr. Givrad co-leads the expansion of perinatal mental health services through the Wanstrath Mental Health Initiative at the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services, developed the first fellowship in perinatal-infant psychiatry in the United States, and now directs Stanford’s Fellowship in Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry. She co-founded the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Network (PIM Network) and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, where she co-leads the development of new curriculum modules. Her work has focused on integrating mental health care throughout the perinatal and early childhood periods.

Dr. Neha Hudepohl completed her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and medical school at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed her general adult psychiatry residency training at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2010. She was appointed Assistant Professor (Clinician Educator) at Brown University – Alpert Medical School following her graduation and was the Medical Director of the Center for Women’s Behavioral Health at Women & Infants Hospital until 2019. In 2019, Dr. Hudepohl joined Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville as Section Chief of Women’s Mental Health. She was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in 2021. In 2022, she became the Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for the Department of Psychiatry. Her academic interests including screening and care models for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, perinatal ethics and decision-making, and medical education.

Lucy Hutner, MD, earned her M.D. from UCSF, completed adult psychiatry residency at Harvard at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean, followed by consultation-liaison fellowship at Columbia. Dr. Hutner was the Associate Director of the first comprehensive women’s mental health program at Columbia and was one of the associate residency training directors at NYU, where she is on the voluntary faculty. Dr. Hutner is the lead editor of the first-ever textbook of reproductive psychiatry, Textbook of Women’s Reproductive Mental Health, which was part of the NCRP. She co-leads the NCRP task force on mental health education for Ob-Gyn. Dr. Hutner is a co-founder and chief medical advisor for the startup Phoebe, which provides a digital roadmap for women in pregnancy through postpartum. She is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, where she serves as Chair of the Laughlin Selection Committee. She is regularly cited in the national media, including the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vogue, Slate, Nike, and Today.

Joanna V. MacLean, MD, is Director of Women’s Behavioral Medicine at Brown University Health, where her clinical interests include women’s mental health across the reproductive years and the integration of behavioral health into primary care and obstetric settings. She is an Associate Professor, Clinician Educator of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She directs the psychiatry residency’s Women’s Mental Health and Integrated Behavioral Health curricula and has received the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award four times. Dr. MacLean earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Brown University and her medical degree from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed her adult psychiatry residency at Cambridge Health Alliance, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, where she served as Chief Resident of Women’s Mental Health. Since joining the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry in 2014, Dr. MacLean has served in a variety of leadership roles, including leading the Longitudinal Case Conference and New Materials Committees.

Lauren M. Osborne, MD, graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College and received her psychiatric training at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. She completed both clinical and research fellowships in women’s mental health, and is an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy, the postpartum, the premenstrual period, and perimenopause. Her research on perinatal mental illness focuses on models of care and on biological mechanisms and biomarkers, with an emphasis on neuroactive steroids and the immune system. Dr. Osborne’s clinical work consists of collaborative care for perinatal mental health within OB/GYN. She is also the President of Marcé of North America; founder and chair of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, a free web-based standardized curriculum; founder and chair of the North American Board of Reproductive Psychiatry; and an editor of The APA Textbook of Women’s Reproductive Mental Health.

Julia N. Riddle, MD is an award winning educator and a reproductive psychiatry clinical researcher. Dr. Riddle completed medical school, psychiatry residency, and a two year Advanced Reproductive Psychiatry fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She then joined the Center for Women’s Mood Disorders at UNC where she serves as Director of Outpatient Psychiatry, facilitating residents clinics, faculty practice, and a Menopause Clinic. Dr. Riddle also works at on UNC Perinatal Psychiatry Inpatient Unit (PPIU) and on the North Carolina Maternal Mental Health Access Line (NCMatters). Dr. Riddle research focused on perinatal loss, neurosteroids, and physiological determinants of mental health in the peripartum. She serves on the NCRP Board of Directors and has Directed the NCRP Intensive since 2023, something she looks forward to every year!