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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\u2019s intensive national practicum for multidisciplinary learners and now leads it yearly. \u00a0She is also part of a national group of obstetricians and psychiatrists developing didactic material for obstetricians. 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