MCPAP for Moms Psychiatrists
Uruj
Kamal
, MD
MCPAP for Moms Medical Director
Dr.
Uruj Kamal Haider, MD, is medical director of MCPAP for Moms, medical director of Women’s Mental Health Clinical Services and assistant professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan Medical School/Memorial.
She is a consulting psychiatrist at Lifeline for Families and enjoys giving state and national talks on perinatal psychiatry access program impact and important women’s mental health clinical topics.
She also serves as the medical student clerkship director for the Women’s Mental Health Elective in the Department of Psychiatry and has received numerous awards in trainee education. Her particular clinical expertise is in caregiving support and sleep, perinatal OCD and psychosis.
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
Jain Lattes, CNM, CNP, completed her master’s degree in nursing at Columbia University. She has been working as a nurse midwife for over 25 years and as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner providing reproductive psychiatric care since 2018.
She is an instructor in the departments of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at UMass Chan Medical School and trains psychiatry and OB/GYN residents as well as midwifery students throughout the year at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Jain joined MCPAP for Moms in 2022.
Natalie Feldman, MD
Natalie Feldman, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist in the Division of Women's Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry and Instructor at Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Her research focuses on perinatal mental health, with a particular focus on postpartum anxiety. She has received funding from an HMS Dupont Warren Research Fellowship and from a Connors Center/Mass Life Sciences Center First Look grant.
She is also a research scientist in the Connors Center for Women's Health. She is the assistant director of the Women's Mental Health Fellowship and supervises residents on the preconception consult rotation.
She is the embedded psychiatrist in the Embrace Program in the department of Ob/Gyn, helping to expand postpartum care beyond the first six weeks postpartum.
Amanda Koire, MD, PhD
Amanda Koire, MD, PhD, has been a perinatal psychiatry consultant for MCPAP for Moms since 2024. She received her MD and PhD from Baylor College of Medicine, where she graduated with honors.
She completed psychiatry residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School with a clinical concentration in women’s mental health. She has also received her Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) from Postpartum Support International.
In addition to her work with MCPAP for Moms, she is an attending psychiatrist in the Division of Women’s Mental Health at BWH, an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of Repro Psych Trainees (www.repropsychtrainees.com).
She offers expertise on medication management during pregnancy and has been published widely in both scientific journals and popular educational outlets including The Carlat Report and Psychopharmacology Institute.
She is passionate about clinical, research, and advocacy work that aligns with a mission of increasing patient access to evidence-based women’s mental health care. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring seasonal activities in New England.