Archives of Women's Mental Health - Meet our Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Anita Riecher-Rössler is Professora emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has specialized in psychiatry, psychotherapy/ psychoanalysis, consultation/ liaison psychiatry and geronto-psychiatry. In 1998, she was the first woman to be appointed to a full chair for psychiatry in a German-speaking country. Her research interests include schizophrenic psychoses, gender differences in mental disorders, and mental disorders in women. She was a founding member/president of several interdisciplinary societies for women’s mental health. In 2018 she was awarded the Pascal-Boyle Prize by the European Psychiatric Association for outstanding achievements by a woman in working to improve Mental Health Care in Europe. According to Web of Science, she belongs to the most highly cited researchers. Currently she is the Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Women’s Mental Health and active in publishing, teaching, counseling, and mentoring and in many national and international societies and advisory boards. Find out more about Anita in her Google Scholar (this opens in a new tab)and Web of Science (this opens in a new tab) profiles.
Section Editors
Jayashri Kulkarni commenced her appointment as Professor of Psychiatry, The Alfred and Monash University in 2002. She founded and directs the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (this opens in a new tab) (MAPrc): a large group - dedicated to discovering new treatments, new understanding and new services for people with a range of mental illnesses. Jayashri Kulkarni graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1981 and became a Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists in 1989. She has conducted ground-breaking clinical research since then and is internationally acknowledged as a leader in the field of Women’s Mental Health, in particular for her innovative work on reproductive hormones and mental illness. In 2021, in addition to her ongoing academic role, she founded and directs Australia's first Women's Mental Health Hospital. Jayashri received an Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for her services to Psychiatry.
Lisa Segre is Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Iowa. Her early studies, Dr. Segre sought to identify factors which raised risk for maternal depression among Iowa women and assessed their preferences for depression treatment. In collaboration with the Iowa Department of Public Health, Dr. Segre led the implementation of maternal depression screening across Iowa, using a Train-the-Trainer mechanism to distribute expertise to collaborators/providers in the field. Given the significant barriers preventing many at-risk women from receiving depression treatment, Dr. Segre sought to close the treatment gap by providing a non-stigmatizing, accessible treatment option: Listening Visits. To assess their effectiveness when used by US providers, Dr. Segre completed four clinical trials with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research. With evidence gathered, Dr. Segre collaborated with Iowa’s Department of Public Health to implement Listening Visits (this opens in a new tab) in the state’s 21 maternal health agencies, which serve impoverished mothers. In 2019, the University of Iowa’s Vice President for Research formally recognized the impact of Dr. Segre’s research on the lives of Iowa mothers with the Distinguished Achievement in Publicly Engaged Research Award. In 2021, the College of Nursing selected Dr. Segre as the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar in Nursing Science Award.
Jodi Pawluski, PhD HDR is a Behavioural Neuroscientist and Psychotherapist based in Rennes, France. Her research is affiliated with the University of Rennes 1. For over a decade Jodi has studied the neuroscience of motherhood and the effects of perinatal mental illness and antidepressant medications on the mother and developing offspring. She regularly speaks nationally and internationally about her research findings as well as the fascinating effects of parenting on the brain. She is a Postpartum Support International Coordinator for France and a member of the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative. She is active in publishing, counseling, mentoring and advocating for improvements to perinatal mental health care. In 2020 she started a podcast called Mommy Brain Revisited (this opens in a new tab) which focuses on bringing current research on the parental brain to the general public. She also regularly blogs about the neuroscience of parenting and perinatal mental health at Inspire the Mind (this opens in a new tab). Find out more about Jodi at her website: http://www.jodipawluski.com (this opens in a new tab)
Louise M. Howard is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London. She was previously Professor in women's mental health and honorary consultant perinatal psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Her research programmes focus on women’s mental health, and the impact of gendered violence on mental health, funded by NIHR, UKRI and charitable foundations. She has worked with policy makers to influence clinical practice including chairing the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Guideline Development Group on Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health (CG192; 2014) and being a member of the WHO 2013 guidance on violence against women. She has won a number of prizes for her research including the International Marce (perinatal mental health) Society’s Marce Medal, and was the first psychiatrist to win a prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Professorship in 2013, followed by an NIHR Senior Investigator award in 2019. She is the immediate past President of the International Marce (perinatal mental health) Society.
Roselind Lieb is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is specialized in Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Epidemiology. Her research interests include the (1) identification of risk and causal factors that may play a crucial role in the development and course of a broad range of mental disorders, (2) the familial transmission of mental disorders, as well as (3) the exploration of cognitive factors involved in mental health problems. In the recent years, Roselind expanded her research portfolio by the (1) exploration of prediction models (based of e.g. machine learning), as well as the (2) application of digital technologies (e.g., virtual reality) in mental health research. She received her PhD as well as her training in psychotherapy at the Free University Berlin, Germany. Afterwards she has conducted clinical-epidemiological research at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, until she joined in 2006 the University of Basel, Switzerland. Currently, Roselind is the president of the Swiss Society of Psychiatric Epidemiology. In 2022 she received the Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award.
Florence Thibaut, MD., PhD., Psychiatrist and Endocrinologist, Head of the Addiction Unit (Department of Psychiatry and Addictive Disorders) at the University Hospital Cochin; Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Paris Cité; Member of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris, France. She is currently interested in women's mental health and addictive disorders. She is Honorary President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and Past President of the International Association of Women's Mental Health. She is author/coauthor of 277 papers (173 in PubMed) (HF: 42-48), 7 books -70 book chapters. She was an invited speaker in national and international meetings (514 communications). She is Editor-in-Chief of Dialogues in Clinical Neurosciences and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the French Association of Families of Mentally-Ill people (member of GAMIAN). Awards: Knight of the Legion of Honour (2019) - WFSBP Excellence Award in Education (2017)
