About

Julia N. Riddle, MD is a reproductive psychiatrist, clinical researcher, and educator with a focus in reproductive mental health (perinatal, perimenopausal, and menstrual cycle related mental illness). She trained at Johns Hopkins for medical school, psychiatry residency, and a two-year Advanced Reproductive Psychiatry clinical-research fellowship. She is now an Assistant Professor at the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders in Chapel Hill, NC. In addition to serving the perinatal population as an outpatient physician, Dr. Riddle has opened a clinic focused on treating patients that experience pregnancy and neonatal loss. Her research focused on perinatal and menstrual mood and anxiety disorders, use of clinical informatics in research, physiological stress, and perinatal loss. Dr. Riddle is on the Board of Directors for the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP). She developed the NCRP’s intensive national practicum for multidisciplinary learners and now leads it yearly.  She is also part of a national group of obstetricians and psychiatrists developing didactic material for obstetricians. Prior to becoming a physician, Dr. Riddle was a sailboat captain and lived aboard boats with students, marine biologists, and oceanographers.