Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine
White Plains, New York
Leah C. Susser, MD, is a reproductive psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her clinical work, academic work, and teaching focus on increasing access to mental health care for perinatal women and for women with mood symptoms with fluctuations in hormones. She created a specialized perinatal mental health clinic within the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Behavioral Health Center (WBHC) Outpatient Department, which she continues to expand. This specialty clinic provides perinatal women with access to consultations as well as specialized, evidence-based mental health care at this vulnerable time in their lives, access which is otherwise unfortunately limited. Dr. Susser has published numerous articles in the field of reproductive psychiatry, both about perinatal mental health and about mood changes with hormonal changes. In addition, she is dedicated to mentoring trainees and teaching trainees about reproductive psychiatry. She gives lectures to psychiatry residents, faculty, and the Women’s Program at Weill Cornell about reproductive psychiatry. She is director of the journal club for the Weill Cornell Women’s Rounds, where she teaches psychiatry residents about critically reading perinatal mental health literature and the limitations of studies of pregnant women. She is involved in teaching psychology postdoctoral fellows and helping them specialize in perinatal mental health. She co-organizes the Weill Cornell physician assistant (PA) student psychiatry rotation. She also gives talks to expand recognition of perinatal mental health more broadly.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
