MCPAP
for Moms Psychiatrists
Uruj Kamal, MD
MCPAP for Moms Medical Director
Dr.
Uruj Kamal Haider is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the founder and
Director of the Women’s Mental Health Outpatient Clinic at 100 Century
Drive. She completed her psychiatry residency at a University of
Massachusetts affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts in 2018. With a
background in Neuroscience & Behavior from Wesleyan University, she
has followed this interest and presented at numerous national
conferences including the American Psychiatric Association and the
American Neuropsychiatric Association. Dr. Haider currently practices
as a general adult and perinatal psychiatrist at University of
Massachusetts Memorial/Medical School within the Outpatient Psychiatry
Department and the Community for Women’s Care (CWC) clinic. She enjoys
her role as a medical educator and has received numerous awards in
medical student teaching in Psychiatry. She serves as the medical
student Clerkship Director for the Women’s Mental Health (WMH) Elective
in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical
School and works with Psychiatry and Family Medicine resident
physicians rotating through the WMH elective.
Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, FACLP
Medical Director of Research and Evaluation
Dr.
Byatt is a perinatal psychiatrist and physician-scientist focused on
improving health care systems to promote perinatal mental health. She
is a Tenured Professor of Psychiatry, Ob/Gyn, and Population and
Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School. She is
the Founding Medical Director of (MCPAP) for Moms. She is also
the Founding Executive Director of the Lifeline for Families Center and
the Lifeline for Moms Program at UMass Chan Medical School. The
Center’s activities include capacity building, consultation, and
research. Dr. Byatt’s research focuses on designing, implementing, and
evaluating scalable approaches for improving maternal and child mental
health services and outcomes. With over ten years of continuous federal
funding for her research, Dr. Byatt’s achievements have led to over 85
peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, over 250 presentations,
and numerous national awards. Her love is her family, especially her
two teenage boys. Her passion is increasing access to mental health
care. Her mission is to redefine maternal and child health care to
include mental health care.
Polina Teslyar, MD
Psychiatric Consultant and Associate and Director of Substance Use Disorder Program at MCPAP for Moms
Dr. Polina Teslyar completed medical school at Tufts School of Medicine and psychiatry residency at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Prat Psychiatry Residency Program. She came to BWH as a Consult-Liaison Psychiatry fellow in 2013. She joined the BWH Psychiatry faculty in 2019 when she returned to the hospital to work in CL psychiatry and women’s mental health and reproductive psychiatry. She is also the interim director of the Division of Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry as well as director of the Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry fellowship and director of women’s mental health training for psychiatry residents. In addition to being a psychiatric consultant for MCPAP for Moms, she is the Associate Director of the Substance Use Disorder program for MCPAP for Moms. Her focus has been on collaborative care across OBGYN, NICU, and psychiatry.
Wendy Marsh, MD, MSc
Wendy
Marsh is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She is a graduate of the Stanford
University Psychiatry Residency Training Program where she went on to
complete a bio-behavioral fellowship in Women's Mental Health and Mood
Disorders. At the University of Massachusetts she earned her
Masters for Science and continues research in mood and reproductive
phases. She was a founding (and now continuing) member of the Women's
Mental Health Program at UMass. She is the Director of the
Bipolar and Depression Specialty Clinics and consults on mood disorders
and women's mental health throughout the region and the country.
She teaches and precepts residents, publishes and presents nationally
and internationally on the reproductive aspects of mental health and
mood.
Jaine Lattes, CNM, CNP
Bio coming soon!
Natalie Feldman, MD
Bio coming soon!
Amanda Koire, MD, Ph.D.
Bio coming soon!