Margaret Spinelli, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Womens' Program in Psychiatry at Columbia, Columbia Unversity College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Margaret Spinelli is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Spinelli is the Director of the Women’s Program in Psychiatry at Columbia University and the recipient of research awards from the National Institutes of Mental Health to study depression and pregnancy. Dr. Spinelli’s clinical, teaching, research activities and publications have focused on psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum periods. In the past 20 years, she has taught and lectured all over the world about perinatal depression .She has worked tirelessly to educate medical faculty, nurses and social workers in psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology in addition to students and residents in training, She has educated attorneys, law students and judges about the importance of peripartum mental illness andi Infanticide. Awards: 2001:Special Recognition Award: Depression after Delivery 2003:The Jane Honickman Award: Postpartum Support International 2004:Manfred S.Guttmacher Award: American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law: outstanding literary contribution to psychiatry and the forensic sciences 2005 Residents Choice Award: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
Undergraduate: St. Francis College, B.A., 1982
Graduate: Columbia University, Post Baccalaureate, 1982-1984
Medical School: Cornell University, M.D., 1984-1988
Internship: New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Medicine, 1988 - 1989
Residency: Payne Whitney Clinic, Psychiatry, 1989 - 1992
Fellowship: Columbia University/ NYS Psychiatric Institute, Research Fellow, 1992-1994
Board Certifications: Psychiatry and Neurology
Dr. Spinelli’s research activities have focused on psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum periods. She has also performed clinical trials on the treatment of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
1. Spinelli M: Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers who Kill: , American Psychiatric Press Inc,, Washington, DC, usa, 2002
2. Spinelli M: Maternal Infanticide Associated with Mental Illness: Prevention and the Promise of Saved Lives. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2004;161(9): 1548-57
3. Spinelli M, Endicott J : Controlled Clinical Trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy Versus Parenting Education Program for Depressed Pregnant Women. American Journal of Psychiatry 2003;160: 555-562
4. Oren D, Wisner K, Spinelli M. Epperson CN, Peindl K, Terman JS, Terman M: An Open Trial of Morning Light Therapy for Treatment of Antepartum Depression. The American Journal of Psychiatry 2002;159: 666-669
