Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u00a0\u00a0She also directs the UNC Center for Women\u2019s Mood Disorders. As Chair, Dr. Meltzer-Brody directs one of the largest public university departments of psychiatry in the United States and collaborates with UNC Health and the state of North Carolina on broad-based initiatives to improve mental health.<\/p>\n
She is a passionate advocate for innovation and transformation of mental health care. She has also served in leadership roles in physician and health care worker mental health and well being in the School of Medicine and UNC Health. \u00a0Dr. Meltzer-Brody is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in perinatal depression.\u00a0Her research investigates the epidemiologic and biological predictors of perinatal depression and innovative treatment approaches (pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic), \u00a0which have taken her across the globe including to sub-Saharan Africa. \u00a0She had led the MOMS GENES study\u2014the largest global genetic study of postpartum depression (PPD) using app based tools. She also served as the academic PI for the novel psychopharmacologic clinical trials developing the first FDA approved medication for postpartum depression (brexanolone) and also served an investigator for the newly approved oral drug (zuranolone) for PPD.<\/p>\n