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Women's Mental Health Fellowship

About The Women's Mental Health Fellowship

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University are offering a 12-month fellowship in women’s mental health.

The fellowship, which takes place at Women & Infants Hospital, a Brown University teaching affiliate and a leading specialty hospital for women and newborns, is designed to offer focused clinical training in women’s mental health for psychiatrists, with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychiatry.

Learn More About The Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Information:

Women & Infants Hospital
101 Dudley Street
Providence, RI 02905-2401
P. (401) 274-1122 ext. 41925

Fellowship Director
Dr. Jessica Pineda
jpineda@wihri.org

Fellowship Coordinator
Lauren Del Vecchio

ldelvecchio@wihri.org
Fellows will receive in-depth exposure to and training in:
  • Pharmacotherapy for pregnant and breastfeeding women
  • Interpersonal psychotherapy
  • Perinatal loss
  • Substance abuse in perinatal women.
  • Socio-cultural influences on perinatal psychiatric illness
  • Influence of menstrual cycle and menopause/perimenopause
  • Trauma-based disorders
  • Impact of maternal mental illness on the developing fetus and infant
Experience in a women’s hospital & women’s health clinics

Fellows will also have exposure to consultation/liaison in a women’s hospital, as well as experience in providing outpatient consultation to women’s health clinics. They will have experience treating pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders, and spend time in a partial hospital program focusing on dialectical behavioral treatment. Fellows will have the unique opportunity to spend time in a mother-baby psychiatric partial hospital program, the first of its kind in the U.S., where they will provide in-depth care to women with peripartum mood and anxiety disorders.

Elective Opportunities

Fellows will have protected time to facilitate pursuit of a scholarly project in women's mental health under the supervision of a research mentor.

Application & Eligibility

To be eligible for application to the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship, the candidate must:
  • Complete a residency or plan to complete a residency in general adult psychiatry prior to the anticipated start date of the fellowship program.
  • Be board certified or board eligible with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult psychiatry.
  • Hold or be eligible for an unrestricted RI medical license.

Candidates wishing to apply for the fellowship should send a letter of interest, CV and three (3) letters of recommendation to Lauren Del Vecchio at Ldelvecchio@wihri.org. For further information, call (401) 274-1122, extension 41925.

If you wish to learn more about the fellowship program or have specific questions, please contact Dr. Jessica Pineda, program director, at Jpineda@kentri.org.