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Advisory Council

Kieran J. O’Donnell, PhD

Kieran J. O’Donnell, PhD

Dr. O’Donnell is an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine, where he Directs the Health-Omics & Perinatal Epidemiology Research Group. Dr. O’Donnell’s research ...
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Leena Mittal MD

Leena Mittal MD

Leena Mittal is the Chief of the Division of Women’s Mental Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and serves as the Program Director for the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship at the ...
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Jane Honikman, MS

Jane Honikman, MS

Jane Honikman, M.S., began her career in Parental Mental Health in 1977 when she co-founded Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP). Her expertise is based upon her struggles as a new mother that are described in her book, My Diary A ...
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Linda G. Klempner, PhD

Linda G. Klempner, PhD

Chair, PSI President's Advisory Council
Linda was Membership Chair and Secretary of the PSI Board from 2007-2012 when she became chair of PSI’s President’s Advisory Council. She is a facilitator for PSI’s Chat with an Expert. She has been on the PPD Taskforce of the ...
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Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD, MFT, PMH-C

Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD, MFT, PMH-C

Past PSI President
Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D, PMH-C is a psychotherapist in private practice in Woodland Hills, CA who specializes in the assessment and treatment of perinatal mood disorders. She is a frequently interviewed trainer and presenter on this topic. Dr. Barnes is ...
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Catherine Birndorf, MD

Catherine Birndorf, MD

Catherine Birndorf, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology and founding director of the Payne Whitney Women’s Program at The New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. She is also the founder of the ...
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Carol Blocker

Carol Blocker

Advocate, The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act
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Angela Burling, R.N., M.S.N.

Angela Burling, R.N., M.S.N.

Angela Burling earned her master’s in nursing from California State University, Sacramento writing her thesis in 1991: “Screening Practices of Health Care Practitioners for Postpartum Mental Illness.” Her story was published in 2014 in “Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery: Stories ...
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Susan Benjamin Feingold, PsyD, PMH-C

Susan Benjamin Feingold, PsyD, PMH-C

SUSAN BENJAMIN FEINGOLD, PSY.D. , PMH-C, is a licensed clinical psychologist, perinatal legal advocate, author and adjunct professor at Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University with offices in Chicago, Skokie and Highland Park, IL. Dr. Feingold presented expert testimony ...
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Vivette Glover, M.A., PhD, D.Sc.

Vivette Glover, M.A., PhD, D.Sc.

Researcher and Author
Professor in Perinatal Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London Adjunct Professor, University of Rochester, NY, USA Glover trained as a biochemist at Oxford University, and did BA Biology in Oxford ...
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Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, FAPA

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, FAPA

Health Psychologist and Researcher
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She is the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a Research Associate at the Crimes against Children ...
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Pec Indman, EdD, MFT, PMH-C

Pec Indman, EdD, MFT, PMH-C

Pec Indman, PA, EdD, MFT, PMH-C, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of maternal mental health. A former family practice physician assistant with a master’s degree in Health Psychology and a doctorate in Marital and Family Therapy, she ...
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Alexis Menken, PhD

Alexis Menken, PhD

Past PSI Board Member
Alexis E. Menken, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in NY, NJ and CT. She developed her career at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. She worked there for approximately ten years as a staff Psychologist in Community Psychiatry where she conducted ...
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Birdie Gunyon Meyer, RN, MA, PMH-C

Birdie Gunyon Meyer, RN, MA, PMH-C

Certification and Training Director
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George Parnham

George Parnham

Attorney at Law, Maternal Mental Health Advocate
He is a soft-spoken attorney who once trained for the priesthood and was thrust into the national spotlight through representing such high-profile clients as Andrea Yates and Clara Harris. Parnham has practiced law for thirty-seven years in Houston, Texas, specializing ...
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Timoria McQueen Saba

Timoria McQueen Saba

Hello! I’m a maternal health advocate, speaker and writer with a focus on mental and physical trauma due to childbirth and pregnancy complications. In 2010, I experienced a near fatal postpartum hemorrhage immediately following the birth of my oldest daughter ...
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Daniel Singley, PhD, ABPP

Daniel Singley, PhD, ABPP

Dr. Singley is a San Diego-based board certified psychologist and Director of The Center for Men’s Excellence. His research and practice focus on men’s mental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychology and the transition to fatherhood. Dr. Singley won ...
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Carly Snyder, MD

Carly Snyder, MD

Carly Snyder, M.D. is a Psychiatrist in New York City with a focus and expertise in Reproductive Psychiatry. Dr. Snyder is the Clinical Course Director for the Reproductive and Perinatal Psychiatry Program at Beth Israel Medical Center. She holds faculty ...
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Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSW

Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSW

PSI Past President
Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSW was president of Postpartum Support International, (2006 – 2008), the organization’s vice-president and Conference Chair (2005 – 2006) and Chair of the President’s Advisory Council (2008- 2010.) She is a NJHSS Certified Perinatal Mood Disorders ...
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Shoshana Bennett, PhD

Shoshana Bennett, PhD

Past PSI President
After two life-threatening bouts of postpartum illness, Dr. Shoshana Bennett helped pioneer the field of maternal mental health.  She founded Postpartum Assistance for Mothers in 1987, became president of California’s state organization Postpartum Health Alliance, and then served as President ...
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