Wednesday, February 15, 2012
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Pregnancy and Lactation Risks of Psychopharacology

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Post-Partum Depression

Susan Hatters Friedman, MD

Susan Hatters Friedman, MD is a perinatal and forensic psychiatrist. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is active in teaching forensic fellows, psychosomatic fellows, pediatric and psychiatry residents, and medical students. Subsequent to her psychiatric residency, she completed training in both forensic psychiatry and women’s mental health research. Her research has primarily focused on the interface of women’s mental health and forensic psychiatry, including notably child murder by mothers. She has written over 60 articles and chapters regarding forensic and perinatal psychiatry topics.
Dr. Friedman’s maternal mental health practice includes both outpatient work, and work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. With mentor Miriam Rosenthal, MD, she co-founded a perinatal mental health program in a Cleveland community mental health center in 2002. This program has trained many residents in perinatal mental health and was awarded the Helping Hands Award by the county mental health board. Through grant funding, she also provides psychiatric services for parents of critically ill infants, and staff support, in an innovative maternal mental health program at the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital NICU.

The Association of Women Psychiatrists awarded Dr. Friedman the Marian Butterfield Early Career Psychiatrist Award in 2008 due to her leadership and contributions to the field of women’s mental health. Dr. Friedman was awarded the Best Teacher in a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Award in 2010 by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Dr. Friedman currently serves as a Councilor of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), and is the President-Elect of the Midwest Chapter of AAPL. She served as chair of AAPL’s Gender Issues committee. She has also served as President of the Cleveland Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Society. Dr. Friedman is also a member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. She recently completed a sabbatical year at the Mason Clinic in Auckland, New Zealand.