Catherine Monk, Ph.D.

Dr. Monk holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her research, she is affiliated with two divisions in psychiatry: behavioral medicine and developmental neuroscience. She is director for research at the Women’s Program, as well as co–director of the Sackler Parent–Infant Project and of the Domestic Violence Initiative. After completing her National Institutes of Health post–doctoral fellowship in the psychobiological sciences at Columbia in 2000, Dr. Monk joined the faculty and established the Perinatal Pathways Laboratory