Cecilia Westbrook, MD, PhD

Psychiatry Resident
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Ceci Westbrook, MD PhD is a second-year psychiatry resident at Western Psychiatric Hospital. She completed her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2017 with Dr. Richard Davidson, and her MD in 2019, both at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests are in understanding the role of stress-diathesis interactions in the development of depression and anxiety disorders, with a focus on the cognitive and neural mechanisms leading to worry and rumination in vulnerable individuals. In her free time she enjoys hiking, baking and creative writing.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentation(s):

• Late-term Peripartum Psychosis as a Potential Indication for Induction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Ethical and Patient Safety Considerations of Severe Mental Illness in Late Term Pregnancy

  Friday, November 12, 2021
  2:45 PM – 3:45 PM US Eastern Time