MCPAP
for Moms Psychiatrists
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.
Uruj Kamal, MD
Medical Director of Consultation Services
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.
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.
Leena P Mittal, MD, FACLP
Medical Director of Equity, Substance Use, and Community Partnerships
Leena
Mittal is the Associate Vice Chair for Diversity Equity and Inclusion
and the Chief of the Division of Women's Mental Health in the
Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an
Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Additionally
she serves as the Program Director for the Women's Mental Health
Fellowship at the Brigham and co chairs the Justice Equity Diversity
and Inclusion committee. Dr Mittal also serves as the Medical
Director of Equity and Innovation for the Massachusetts Child
Psychiatry Access Program for Moms (MCPAP for Moms), an innovative
statewide consultation service for providers seeing pregnant and
postpartum women with mental health and substance use conditions.
Dr Mittal is an advocate for the needs of perinatal individuals and
marginalized populations at the local, state and national level.
She has numerous publications and speaks nationally on the treatment of
mental health and substance use conditions throughout pregnancy and the
postpartum period as well as racial equity in maternal mental
health. Dr. Mittal is board certified in psychiatry,
psychosomatic medicine and addiction medicine.
Polina Teslyar, MD
Polina
Teslyar is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, a
Consultation-Liaison and Perinatal Psychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital as well as the Associate Director for the Women’s Mental
Health Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a graduate of
the Tufts University School of Medicine, University of
Maryland/Sheppard-Pratt Psychiatry residency program and has completed
a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's
Hospital where she primarily focused on Women’s Mental Health. As a
member of the Medical Psychiatry service at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, she works closely with medical students, residents and
consult-liaison psychiatry fellows, and she facilitates psychiatric
liaison work with the obstetric service at the largest obstetric center
in Massachusetts. She enjoys teaching trainees of all levels and
working towards further integration of psychiatric care and training
into obstetrics and neonatal medicine. Dr. Teslyar is board certified
and psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.
Taber Lightbourne, MD
Bio coming soon!
Jaine Lattes, CNM, CNP
Bio coming soon!