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Learn MoreWelcome to the Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry Service at the University of Illinois Chicago, where we provide excellence in clinical services, professional education, and research! It is a pioneer in Illinois and has been nationally recognized for its achievement, having won prestigious awards, like The American Psychiatric Association’s Gold Achievement Award for innovative Mental Health service delivery, and the American College of Psychiatrists’ Award for Creativity in Psychiatric Education.
The Women’s Mental Health Program at UIC for several years was the only program in Illinois to offer both inpatient and outpatient women's mental health services, including specific services to pregnant women. As home to one of the first Women's Mental Health Fellowships in the country, UIC is also dedicated to shaping the future of women's mental health education.
Through a comprehensive focus on women and newborns, our residents and fellows receive excellent training in psychopharmacotherapy for pregnant and breastfeeding women, interpersonal psychotherapy, perinatal loss and infertility, substance abuse in perinatal women, domestic violence, socio-cultural influences on perinatal psychiatric illness, influence of menstrual cycle and menopause, trauma-based disorders, sexual disorders, and the impact of maternal mental illness on the developing fetus and infant. Fellows will be allowed to select elective opportunities in their areas of particular interest and to supplement their training. Fellows will also have the opportunity to develop a scholarly project in women's mental health under the supervision of a research mentor. As the main tertiary center in WMH in Illinois, we get referrals from several areas of our state and neighboring states.Those include:
Dr. Stojanac joined UIC in July 2016 as a psychiatrist in the Outpatient Clinic of the Women’s Mental Health Program (WMH). Since then Dr. Stojanac has been dedicated to expanding Women’s Mental Health Outpatient Clinic and rotating in coverage of the Inpatient Women’s Mental Health Unit. Dr. Stojanac has been working with the team of WMH psychiatrists on developing Two Generation Clinic (lead by Dr. Melissa Wagner PhD) where mothers and their children can receive mental health care together. Dr. Stojanac is the director in Women's Mental Health Division. Dr. Stojanac has been teaching and supervising Adult Psychiatry Residents. She received Merton Max Gill, M.D. Award (2019) presented by graduating psychiatry residents for mentorship and excellence in teaching. She serves as Director of Women’s Mental Health Fellowship since June 2017, supervising two Women’s Mental Health Fellows.
Dr. Mulvihill is board certified in both General Psychiatry and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry. She completed her adult training and child fellowship at UIC. She stayed on at UI Health to join the faculty in 2018. Dr. Mulvihill works both in the Women’s Mental Health Program and Child Adolescent Division to expand integrative services around maternal-child mental health. She is interested in treating children, women, and families with various psychiatric issues including those related to pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, and motherhood. Dr. Mulvihill has a particular interest in working with expectant and new mothers with their children to improve family wellness and prevent adverse child experiences.
Dr. Brandon Hage (preferred pronouns: “he/him”) is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago. He completed Medical School at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine and completed General Adult Residency and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Western Psychiatric Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his training, he also completed the Women’s Mental Health & Reproductive Psychiatry Area of Concentration, the Public Service Psychiatry Fellowship, and the Academic Administrator/Clinician Educator Track. He created a reproductive psychiatry curriculum for OBY/GYN residents at UPMC Magee Women’s Hospital and is currently working on creating a standardized, national curriculum for OB/GYN physicians through his work with the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP). His clinical interests lie in child & adolescent psychiatry, women’s mental health including dual diagnosis treatment and trauma disorders, perinatal and postpartum psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, resident and medical student education, community psychiatry, physician well-being, racial and gender inequities in medicine, and social determinants of health.
Dr. Schumacher earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at Temple University and received her medical degree from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center. Her clinical interests include severe and persistent mental illness, early psychosis, women’s mental health and public psychiatry.
Lizabeth Fernandez, CDVP, LCSW is a bilingual (English/ Spanish) clinician who provides psychotherapy grounded in principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma informed practice, and cultural humility. She completed her Masters in Social Work at UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work and ...
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