Education
The Asher Center and our faculty members contribute much to education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the broader Northwestern University, field colleagues and our community. We believe that educating future generations and sharing knowledge gained through our research is key to better clinical outcomes related to depressive disorders.
Fellowships
We are committed to recruiting and training fellows to provide care for women across the reproductive lifespan and particularly during pregnancy and postpartum.
Perinatal and Women's Mental Health Fellowship
This fellowship presents opportunities to complement existing clinical and research initiatives in women’s and perinatal mental health.
Perinatal and Women's Psychology Fellowship
We offer a one-year Perinatal and Women’s Mental Health Instructor-Level Clinical Psychology scholar position. Two candidates are accepted each year.Resident Rotation
At the Asher Center, senior residents from the McGaw Psychiatry Residency Program have the opportunity to learn about the special behavioral health needs of women’s during their reproductive years.
Mentorships & Additional Feinberg Programs
Asher Center members currently serve as mentors for Area of Scholarly Concentration medical students, postdoctoral Reproductive Psychiatry students, undergraduate student externs, Clinical Psychology students, Psychiatry residents, BIRCWH awardees, Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellows, K-Award applicants and junior faculty investigators.
They are further involved in programs such as the following:
- Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD Program
- Feinberg School of Medicine MD Program
- Crystal Clark, MD, MSc: Mood Disorder and Antidepressants; Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Class - Expert Panelist
- Katherine L. Wisner, MD: Reproductive Medicine: Perinatal Depression
- Lurie Children's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program
- Katherine L. Wisner, MD: Case Consultation: Postpartum Depression in Adolescents for Child Psychiatry
- Clinical Psychology PhD Program
- Sheehan Fisher, PhD: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Postpartum Depression in Fathers
- Jackie Gollan, PhD: Biobehavioral Experimental Therapeutics Research program
- Leiszle Lapping-Carr, PhD: Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Mental Health Clinic and Sex and Relationship Health Program