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Kristin Leight, M.D., M.A.
Fellow in Women's Mental Health, The Women's Program
Instructor in Clinical Psychiatry,
Columbia Department of Psychiatry
Fellow in Women's Mental Health,
Columbia Department of Psychiatry
Candidate, Psychoanalytic Training,
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
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Dr. Leight is an Instructor in Clinical Psychiatry and a Fellow in Women's Mental Health at The Women's Program in Psychiatry at Columbia. As such, she provides expert consultation and treatment to women with psychiatric illness related to the reproductive life cycle. Last year, Dr. Leight also worked as an inpatient psychiatry attending at Columbia's Milstein 9 Garden North Unit. Dr. Leight supervises psychiatry residents and teaches both residents and medical students.
Dr. Leight is also a psychoanalytic candidate at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and has a private practice.
Dr. Leight studied at UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate on a Morehead Scholarship. As a British Marshall scholar, she received an M.A. in Classics and English at Oxford University. Dr. Leight then worked as a research assistant at UCLA's Mood Disorders Program before attending Harvard Medical School. She served as a Chief Resident during her final year of psychiatric residency at Columbia-Presbyterian/NYSPI.
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Undergraduate: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. with Highest Honors in English and Creative Writing, 1990-1994
Graduate: Oxford University, Magdalen College, M.A., Classics and English, 1994-1997
Medical School: Harvard Medical School, M.D., 2000-2004
Internship: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 2004-2005
Residency: Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 2005-2008
Board Certifications: Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, June 2009
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• Reproductive Psychiatry
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Address:
Neurological Institute
Room 12th floor Unit/Box:
710 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-3709
Fax: 212-342-1699
kl2185@columbia.edu
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1. Monk C, Leight KL, Fang Y.: The relationship between women's attachment style and perinatal mood disturbance: implications for screening and treatment.. Archives of Womens Mental Health 2008;11(2): 117-129.
2. Leight KL: Transitions. Current Surgery 2003;60(2): 174-175
3. Altshuler LL, Gitlin MJ, Mintz J, Leight KL, Frye MA.: Subsyndromal depression is associated with functional impairment in patients with bipolar disorder.. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2002;63(9): 807-811
4. Altshuler L, Mintz J, Leight K.: The Life Functioning Questionnaire (LFQ): a brief, gender-neutral scale assessing functional outcome.. Psychiatry Research 2002;112(2): 161-182
5. Hendrick V, Stowe ZN, Altshuler LL, Mintz J, Hwang S, Hostetter A, Suri R, Leight K, Fukuchi A: Fluoxetine and norfluoxetine concentrations in nursing infants and breast milk.. Biological Psychiatry 2001;15;50(10): 775-782
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