Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Seattle, Washington
Amritha Bhat, MBBS, MD, MPH is a perinatal psychiatrist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She established the perinatal psychiatry clinic at the University of Washington Medical Center. She is the co director of the Maternal Child Mental Health Program and leads several projects that make perinatal mental health treatments available in primary care and obstetric settings, including collaborative care and telephone consultation. She is actively involved in resident education and leads the Perinatal Psychiatry interest pathway and selective in the University of Washington’s Psychiatry residency pathway and is faculty on the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship. She leads inter disciplinary education efforts and has created educational modules regarding postpartum depression for NICU nurses, and compiled training material for care managers working with women with perinatal depression. Her research interests include developing sustainable primary care based models of maternal mental health care that also include attention to the mother – infant dyad.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, November 11, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
