Learning Objectives: 

1. Outline barriers and facilitators to perinatal mental health care and approaches that may help seal remaining gaps.

2. Discuss how lived experience and advocacy drove a movement that led to statewide and national dissemination of the Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program model.

3. Discuss how healthcare-community partnerships can build capacity of perinatal care settings to address perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Session date: 
01/14/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm EST
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Faculty List: 
Committee member(s)

Nickie Niforatos Andescavage, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Attending Physician of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Hannah Kim

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Catherine Limperopoulos

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Katherine Wisner, MD, MS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.