One-year clinical fellowship focusing on evidenced-based treatment to improve patient and family function, with the goal of preventing mental health disorders in future generations.
We are proud to announce a new learning focus in the UNM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. During this 1-year clinical fellowship, you have training opportunities in the areas of women’s mental health and attachment rarely found at other institutions.
We have several sites where you can learn to treat women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period in collaboration with the UNM Psychiatric Center as well as the OB/GYN, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics departments.
We coordinate the Infant Mental Health portion of the fellowship with faculty from our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry division and the Center for Development and Disability. You get to work with child psychiatrists and psychologists to learn treatment modalities for disruption in the mother/infant dyad.
You also have opportunities to pursue your own special interests with electives outside the perinatal period including perimenopause, chronic pelvic pain, gynecological cancer, and eating disorders. Your training will help us in our mission to improve the mental health of New Mexico families and prevent mental health disorders in future generations.
“There is a tremendous need for providers who are trained in women’s mental health, but there are not enough programs in the country to address them. I wanted to offer this experience to learners, to keep practitioners here, and to expand the level of knowledge in our state.”
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Desirae Ramirez
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
2400 Tucker Avenue NE
1 University of New Mexico
MSC09 5030
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Reproductive Psychiatry Fellowship Application
For best consideration, complete applications should be submitted between August 1st and December 15. The fellowship cannot guarantee that applications submitted after December 15 will be reviewed.
Fellows have core requirements of perinatal psychopharmacology clinics, infant mental health clinics, elective clinics, and psychotherapy.
Perinatal Psychopharmacology Clinics
Journeys clinic is co-located in an offsite OB/GYN clinic. There are two psychotherapists and a part-time psychologist at this site to help support our patients.
Start Clinic is a PGY3 psychiatry resident outpatient clinic located at UNM Mental Health Center. Fellows will have the opportunity to help supervise and teach PGY3’s.
Focus Clinic is a family medicine/peds run the program located in a primary care clinic that serves postpartum women with co-occurring substance use disorders.
UNM Neonatal Intensive Care Unit-fellow will do mental health evaluations of mothers who have a baby admitted to the UNM NICU
Infant mental health clinics
Zero to Five Clinic is located at UNM Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Cimarron clinic. This clinic focuses on the dyad of mother and baby.
UNM Center for Development and Disability is under the Department of Pediatrics. Fellows have many opportunities to gain experience in diagnosing and treating social-emotional, developmental, attachment, and regulatory conditions in infants, young children, and their caregivers.
UNM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Nina Gonzales, MD
Reproductive Psychiatry Fellowship Director
Medical Director, Journeys Clinic, UNM
Kimothi Cain, MD, MPH
Assistant Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Associate Medical Director, Cimarron Clinic
Medical Director, 0-5 Clinic
Pediatric Consult Liaison Psychiatry Service
Kristina Sowar, MD
Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Emergency Psychiatry Services
Eating Disorder Clinic, UNM
UNM Department of Pediatrics
Peggy MacLean, PhD
Associate Professor
Julia Oppenheimer, PhD
Associate Professor
Didactics are held every Monday at noon. Every first and last Monday is a perinatal or infant mental health topic given by either core or visiting faculty. Every second Monday is journal club. Every third Monday is a case conference.
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Medical Education Program Specialist
Desirae Ramirez
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
2400 Tucker Avenue NE
1 University of New Mexico
MSC09-5030
Albuquerque, NM 87131