Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Amritha Bhat, MBBS, MD, MPH is a perinatal psychiatrist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. A psychiatrist trained in both India and the USA, she also completed the Psychiatry in Primary Care Fellowship Program at the University of Washington. She established the perinatal psychiatry clinic at the University of Washington Medical Center. She leads and is involved in several projects that make perinatal mental health treatments available to women in primary care and obstetric settings, including collaborative care and telephone consultation. She leads the Perinatal Psychiatry interest pathway in the University of Washington’s Psychiatry residency pathway and is faculty on the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship. She has created educational modules regarding postpartum depression for NICU nurses, and compiled training material for care managers working with women with perinatal depression. Her research interests include developing sustainable primary care based models of maternal mental health care that also include attention to the mother – infant dyad.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
The Role of the C-L Psychiatrist in Perinatal Collaborative Care: A Mixed Methods Analysis
Friday, November 12, 2021
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM US Eastern Time