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Katherine Kosman, MD

 

Katherine Kosman, MD

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Principal Investigator

Women's Health Sciences Division

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Academic Appointment

  • Harvard Medical School, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry

Education

  • VA Boston Healthcare System, Neuropsychiatry Translational Research Fellowship Program, Research Fellow (women's mental health focus), 2020-2022
  • Harvard, Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Psychiatry Resident, 2016- 2020
  • Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Anesthesiology Resident, 2014-2016
  • University of California San Francisco (UCSF)-East Bay, Surgical Intern, 2014
  • Dartmouth, Geisel School of Medicine, M.D., 2013
  • Dartmouth, Tuck School of Business, Masters of Business Administration (MBA), 2012
  • Washington University in St. Louis, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, 2003

Expertise and Interests

  • Women's Mental Health
  • Reproductive Health
  • Postpartum Depression (PPD)
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Childbirth related PTSD
  • Trauma
  • Other contributors to postpartum depression including psychosocial factors, and impact on mother, baby, family, and occupational functioning
  • Hormonal contraceptives and impact on women's mental health
  • Neurobiology and neuroendocrinology of PTSD in women
  • Stress reactivity and psychological symptom changes across the menstrual cycle

Membership in Professional Societies

  • Massachusetts Medical Society
  • American Medical Association
  • Postpartum Support International

Awards and Honors

  • VISN1 I-CARE Award for Patient Advocacy, VISN-1 (New England Region) Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) (2022)
  • Payton-Wilson-Hampers MD-MBA Outstanding Scholar's Award, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
  • Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
  • Eta Kappa Nu Honorary Society, Washington University in St Louis

Selected Publications

Kosman K. A., Almeida, M., Salama, K., Salzman, C., Teslyar, P. Inpatient hospitalization for post- partum depression: Implications for mother and infant. (2020). Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 28(4), 279-286. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000253

Almeida, M., Kosman, K. A., Kendall, M. C., De Oliveira, G. S. The association between labor epidural analgesia and postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Women's Health, 20(1), 1-7. doi: 10.1186/s12905-020-00948-0

Meyer, J. F., Wattenberg, M. S., Kosman, K. A., Budd, M. A., Duffy, M. J., Agrawal, A., ... & Bradley, J. C. (2023). Stigma and barriers to care for mental health treatment for military and Veteran populations. In Veteran and Military Mental Health: A Clinical Manual (pp. 45-85). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Kosman, K. A., & Levy-Carrick, N. C. (2019). Positioning psychiatry as a leader in trauma-informed care (TIC): The need for psychiatry resident education. Academic Psychiatry, 43, 429-434. doi: 10.1007/s40596-019-01020-2

Kosman, K. A., AhnAllen, C. G., & Fromson, J. A. (2019). A call to action: The need for integration of transgender topics in psychiatry education. Academic Psychiatry, 43(1), 82-88. doi: 10.1007/s40596-018-0966-7

PTSD Information Voice Mail: (802) 296-6300
Email: ncptsd@va.gov
Also see: VA Mental Health

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