Mary  Kimmel, MD PhD

Mary Kimmel, MD PhD

Mary Kimmel, MD, PhD is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She previously was at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she was medical director for the Perinatal Psychiatry Inpatient Unit and helped start and served as medical director of NC MATTERS, a statewide perinatal mental health consultation line. She is an affiliated researcher with Uppsala University in Sweden where she earned her PhD in maternal and child health. Her research interests include better characterization of stress in pregnancy; studying the interaction between obstetrical complications and perinatal stress, depression and anxiety; and utilizing the microbiota-gut-brain axis to improve diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She has published in Biological Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry, Archives of Women’s Mental Health, Nature Communications, Child Development, among others.