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Dr. Freeman is a member of the faculty of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Program at
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Women’s Mental Health. Her clinical research is focused on
mood disorders in women and integrative medicine, with particular emphasis on perinatal mood
disorders. The focus of her clinical work is the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in women
planning for pregnancy or for women who are pregnant or postpartum. She completed her undergraduate
degree at University of Wisconsin and medical school at Northwestern University Medical School. She
completed residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program and a research fellowship
in the Biological Psychiatry Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Freeman
2000-2007. In 2007, she relocated to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to establish a
new Women’s Mental Health Center. She has been at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2008. For
the past ten years, she has chaired the annual Women’s Mental Health Symposium in Tucson, Arizona,
which is a conference for multidisciplinary professionals and the public. She is Vice Editor-in-Chief for
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. She chaired the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Task Force
on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, subcommittee on Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Psychiatry, and
is a member of the APA’s workgroup on Major Depressive Disorder treatment guidelines. She is on the
Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) and Postpartum
Progress, Inc, and is an Associate Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
(ACNP).
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