Soudabeh Givrad, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development at Stanford University, and an attending psychiatrist at Stanford Children’s Health/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.  

Dr. Givrad is a nationally recognized leader in perinatal and infant mental health. She developed and directed the first fellowship in perinatal-infant psychiatry in the United States, training the next generation of specialists to work at the intersection of reproductive, perinatal, and early relational mental health. Her clinical and academic work focuses on perinatal and infant psychiatry integration, early dyadic care, and creating a continuity of care for families, bridging psychiatry, obstetrics, pediatrics, and developmental science. 

She is on the board of directors of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry and authored a key chapter on infant mental health integration in clinical systems of care. Dr. Givrad previously served as director of the Maternal-Infant Psychiatry Program at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where she expanded services for pregnant and postpartum individuals and their infants.

Dr. Givrad completed her psychiatry residency at Yale School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is board certified in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She completed her internship at Michigan State University and earned her medical degree from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran.

Amalia Londoño Tobón, MD is a bicultural, bilingual (Spanish–English, Colombian-American) psychiatrist and researcher specializing in perinatal, infant–early childhood, family, and cultural dimensions of mental health. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and MedStar Health, where she leads research to integrate perinatal and infant mental health into obstetric and pediatric systems of care. Within the MedStar Georgetown Mother-Baby Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), she advances dyadic and family-centered approaches and collaborates with clinical teams to strengthen early identification and coordinated support for families.

Dr. Londoño is recognized nationally and internationally for her work on perinatal–infant mental health integration. She holds leadership positions across multiple professional organizations: founding member of La Red Latinoamericana de Salud Mental Perinatal, board-elected member of the Marcé of North America (MONA), incoming co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Infant and Preschool Committee and the Hispanic/Latinx Caucus, and co-chair of the DC Perinatal Quality Collaborative’s implementation of the AIM Perinatal Mental Health bundle. She has served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Perinatal Mental Health Taskforce and co-leads LaSaludMental.org, a platform offering culturally and linguistically curated mental health resources. She is also an active volunteer with Postpartum Support International.

Dr. Londoño earned her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She completed her residency and fellowship in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Yale University, a fellowship in perinatal mental health at Brown University, and a research fellowship at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Misty C. Richards, MD, MS, is an Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with a joint appointment in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a nationally recognized educator and clinician, known for her leadership in perinatal and infant mental health integration across disciplines.

Dr. Richards serves as the Program Director for the UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and is highly involved in medical student education as the Co-Chair of the UCLA DGSOM Medical Education Committee.Clinically, Dr. Richards serves as the Director of Infant Mental Health of the UCLA Maternal Mental Health Intensive Outpatient Program and is also the Co-Founder and Medical Director of Perinatal Psychiatry for the Maternal Outpatient Mental health Services (MOMS) Clinic. The MOMS Clinic is a pioneering program in UCLA’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology that brings psychiatric care into perinatal and reproductive health settings, supporting women and families through every stage of the perinatal journey.

Her interest in perinatal mental health began as an undergraduate at UCLA, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology while researching the impact of anxiety and depression in pregnancy. She went on to complete a four-year research fellowship at the NIH and National Science Foundation, studying the neurobiology of mood disorders. She later obtained an MS in Neuroscience and an MD from Albany Medical College, and was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study stigma associated with mental illness in Japan.

Dr. Richards completed her General Psychiatry Residency and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute, where she has since developed her clinical and academic focus on the intersection of perinatal psychiatry, infant mental health, and family systems. In addition to her domestic work, she has contributed to global mental health through initiatives such as co-founding a medical clinic in Ddegeya Village, Uganda, fostering sustainable partnerships with U.S. institutions. Dr. Richards is committed to advancing equitable, developmentally informed, and family-centered models of care that support the mental health of both parents and infants, right from the beginning.

Dr. Maria Muzik, MD, MSc, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Michigan. She holds a medical degree from the University of Vienna, Austria, and completed her residency in psychiatry at both the University Hospital in Vienna and in Michigan. She also holds a master’s degree from the UM School of Public Health. She is the Medical Director of Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine (USA), and of MC3 Perinatal, the state-wide perinatal psychiatry access program for primary care. 

At Michigan Medicine, Dr. Muzik co-directs Zero to Thrive, a program that supports families challenged by adversity to help them thrive from pregnancy through postpartum. Dr. Muzik is the co-director for the Partnering for Future clinic at UM Michigan Medicine, an integrated obstetrics/addiction/mental health clinic for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use and opioid use disorders. She co-developed the Strong Roots™ programs, a menu of resiliency-oriented interventions. Her research work focuses on the impact of adversity and mental illness in the context of childbearing on caregiving and the developing parent-child relationship, and how to support families in overcoming psychological and environmental adversity. She is well published, and her work is funded by federal, state, and foundation awards.

JooHee Choi, MD is a first-year Internal Medicine resident in Blacksburg, Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Her clinical interests include perinatal mental health, geriatric mental health, and palliative care. Training in rural southwest Virginia, where access to healthcare is often limited, has underscored for her the vital importance of continuity of care and connecting patients with appropriate mental health resources. She is particularly drawn to the complex interplay between medical conditions and psychiatric concerns, and the unique challenges they present in patient care.

Mahelet Mamo is a commissioned U.S. Army Reserve officer and a fourth-year medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She is interested in psychiatry, with a focus on child and adolescent psychiatry and perinatal mental health. Her work centers on healthcare equity and community initiatives, with a focus on developing more collaborative and accessible mental health care for families.