Lee S. Cohen, MD
Dr. Cohen is Director of The Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the Edmund and Carroll Carpenter Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency training and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a national and international leader in the field of women’s mental health and was among the founders of the field of Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry. His work spans the domains of research, teaching and clinical care in the area of treatment of mood and anxiety disorders with subspecialty interest in psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function. These include psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the post-partum period and mental health. The research which he conducts and oversees has helped to inform the care of patients who suffer from psychiatric illness.
Marlene P. Freeman, MD
Marlene P. Freeman, M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and the Abra Prentice Foundation Chair in Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Medical Director of the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI).
Dr. Freeman completed medical school at Northwestern University Medical School. She completed residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program and a research fellowship in the Biological Psychiatry Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her research and clinical expertise is in the areas of mood disorders and women’s mental health. She also has had clinical and research interests in the areas of nutrition, integrative medicine, and mental health. She previously directed programs in women’s mental health at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and at UT-Southwestern in Dallas.
She is the Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) and is a Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). She was a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and chaired the APA Task Force on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and was a member of the APA’s workgroup on Major Depressive Disorder treatment guidelines.  She also served as a Member of the Veterans Administration Reproductive Mental Health Steering Committee.
Rachel Vanderkruik, PhD, MSc
Rachel Vanderkruik is the Associate Director of Research and Cognitive Behavioral Services, and a Staff Psychologist with the Center for Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She completed her predoctoral internship in the Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) track at MGH as she received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from University of Colorado Boulder. She has been trained in evidence-based psychotherapies, including CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Rachel also has a Masters in Science from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she concentrated in Maternal and Child Health. Her work focuses on the promotion of women’s mental health and wellbeing, particularly during transition time periods (e.g., pregnancy and the postpartum, adolescence). She has training in Mixed Methods Research, Implementation Research, and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). Rachel is passionate about increasing access to evidence-based interventions and services through novel delivery methods (e.g., online platforms, peer delivery, and integrated care) and addressing disparities in mental health access and outcomes nationally and on a global scale.
Ella Slaby, BA
Ella graduated from Bowdoin College in 2025 with a BA in neuroscience and a minor in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies (GSWS). While at Bowdoin, Ella interned at Allina Health in the orthopedics department and completed independent research characterizing the effect of neuromodulation on the stretch feedback response in the American lobster cardiac ganglion. She was also a neurophysiology learning assistant, member of the varsity women’s rugby team, and volunteer coach/photographer for the youth programs at Portland Rugby Football Club and NH-ME Youth Rugby Union. At MGH, Ella supports the National Pregnancy Registry for Psychiatric Medications and the STEPS for Postpartum Depression study. She enjoys reading, playing board games, and exercising in her free time, and plans to attend medical school in the future.
Bridget Murphy, BA
Bridget Murphy graduated from Princeton University in 2024 with a BA is Psychology, graduating with highest honors. During her senior year, she completed her thesis on the demographic spread and cognitive implications surrounding muscle dysmorphia in college aged students and student athletes. During her junior year, she completed an independent research project that investigated the role of various coping mechanisms and a multifaceted identity in an individual’s ability to successfully adapt and transform their identity following an abrupt identity altering event. Based on her academic performance both in the classroom and regarding her independent work, Bridget received the Howard Crosby Warren Prize in Psychology during her junior and senior year. Bridget was also a member of the varsity field hockey team, as well as the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Athlete Ally. In the future, Bridget hopes to pursue a degree in Clinical Psychology.