Juan Aparicio is a reproductive psychiatrist at Northwestern University where he sees patients, serves as the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship Assistant Director and supervises psychiatry residents.

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.

Nicole Leistikow, MD is a reproductive psychiatrist and prescribing sleep zealot. She is also an Assistant Professor and Clinical Director of the Johns Hopkins Reproductive Mental Health Center where she trains residents in managing mental illness from premenstrual exacerbation, to pregnancy, postpartum and perimenopause. She completed both medical school and residency at Johns Hopkins before contributing to growing reproductive psychiatry training and clinical services at the University of Maryland. She is a former high school English teacher and freelance journalist and has written about women’s mental health for textbooks, scientific journals, and on her private practice blog at http://www.womenspsychiatrybaltimore.com.

Dr. McMerrill is a reproductive psychiatrist and educator whose work focuses on helping both patients and clinicians thrive through thoughtful clinical care, innovative medical education, and improving the systems that support both. Her clinical practice includes general adult and reproductive psychiatry, where she enjoys integrating evidence-based psychopharmacology with psychotherapy, psychoeducation, and practical behavioral interventions to provide comprehensive, patient-centered care. As Core Faculty for the Prisma Health/University of South Carolina Greenville Psychiatry Residency Program, she develops curricula and teaches psychiatry residents, medical students, and women’s health providers. Her academic interests include perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology in pregnancy and lactation, clinical informatics, and leveraging emerging technologies to improve clinician workflows, education, and patient care.

Sarah Nagle-Yang, MD, is Vice Chair of Quality and Co-Section Director of the Perinatal, Reproductive, and Early Childhood Mental Health Section in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. A reproductive psychiatrist with nearly 20 years of experience, she focuses on improving access to high-quality mental health care across the reproductive lifespan.

Her work includes developing innovative models of care, strengthening behavioral health integration in obstetric and primary care settings, and creating interdisciplinary education for clinicians nationwide.

Dr. Nagle-Yang is co-chair of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, co-editor of the APA Textbook of Women’s Reproductive Mental Health, past president of NASPOG, and co-chair of the Colorado Maternal Mortality Review Committee. She completed residency at Montefiore/Albert Einstein and fellowships at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

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.

Dr. Lindsay R. Standeven is a part-time clinical associate professor and director of women’s mental health and reproductive psychiatry education at the University of Maryland SOM.

After completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Standeven pursued two years of advanced academic training in reproductive psychiatry. She spent the earlier part of her career on faculty at Johns Hopkins, serving as clinical and education director for the Johns Hopkins Reproductive Mental Health Center.

Passionate about teaching and advocacy in women’s mental health, she serves on the board of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, where she helped spearhead a national training program for psychiatric trainees. Her clinical expertise spans pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, reproductive loss, PMOS, PMS, and perimenopause.

Hannah Strater holds a doctorate in nursing practices (DNP) from Columbia University and is board certified and licensed to practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in New York and New Jersey.

At Weill Cornell she has been part of the OB-Psych Collaborative Care Program since its inception in 2022. She works closely with Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and the OB teams to create accessible behavioral health support. For her patients she provides therapy and psychotropic medication management during pregnancy and postpartum, pre-conception counseling, and in cases of pregnancy loss or infertility.

Dr. Strater has had a lifelong passion for all the facets of women’s lives and how they unfold in different countries and cultures. This general interest was a theme in her earlier years working in marketing and brand strategy in Europe and the US, her years as a yoga teacher, and culminated in her graduate studies in nursing, psychiatry and women’s mental health.